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Top 21 Confectionery manufacturers based in Ireland
RevenueBase identified 49 confectionery manufacturers headquartered in Ireland as of September 2026 and tracks 636 professional contacts across them, including 116 with verified work emails. Dublin is the largest hub.
This list covers confectionery manufacturers headquartered in Ireland, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
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The 21 largest confectionery manufacturers based in Ireland
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 225 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1932, Butlers Chocolates is Ireland’s premier family-owned firm dedicated to the craft of exceptional chocolate-making.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Lir, we stand as a forefront provider of premium chocolates to prominent retailers globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lily O'Brien's is one of Ireland's leading chocolate manufacturers, boasting approximately 20% share of the Irish premium chocolate confectionery category during key confectionery…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “East Coast Bakehouse is Europe’s newest large scale biscuit manufacturer - a €30.0m investment to create the largest single biscuit line in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Every day, our skilled team of bakers make fresh artisan breads, delicious cakes and tempting pastries using high quality natural ingredients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Le Patissier our philosophy is to produce handmade fresh desserts and patisserie from scratch, using Irish diary and free range eggs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Couverture Desserts supplies premium quality desserts to the Airline, Foodservice and Retail market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shelton Distributors are a confectionery distributor based on the outskirts of Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “West Bake is a leading Irish manufacturer of branded and non branded sweet confectionery.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since our incorporation in 2005 Safa Food has been baking fresh quality bread and confectionery using only authentic recipes and the finest ingredients from around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Athenry based bakery supplying quality fresh hand-baked products to retailers and food service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The signature range includes favourites such as Kinder, Nutella, Dairymilk Caramel, Milkybar and Reese's Peanut Butter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It was September, 1951 and a day to celebrate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We work painstakingly in small batches by hand with grá, right here in Co Galway.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2001 by Jim and Mary Healy, The Chocolate Garden of Ireland is an Award-winning family business making hand made chocolates, premium ice cream (Tipperary Ice Cream…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hassetts is committed to delivering quality and innovative baking and confectionery products to all our customers every day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Skelligs Chocolate, located on The Skelligs Ring, and named in The Lonely Planet’s Top 10 Regions to visit in 2017, our factory is just opposite St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Planet Candy is Ireland's largest online retailer of wholesale confectionery, selling direct to consumers and businesses alike.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “National Food Imports Limited offers a specialised range of high-quality products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Treat Yo Self is an Eco-Friendly Vegan Sweet company, run by a bunch of kids!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: confectionery manufacturers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names confectionery manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of confectionery manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name confectionery manufacturers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Confectionery manufacturers based in Ireland at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Ireland, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Ireland, over 49 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among confectionery manufacturers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Ireland whose own description of what they do matches “confectionery manufacturers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names confectionery manufacturers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among confectionery manufacturers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Ireland are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 116 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names confectionery manufacturers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many confectionery manufacturers are there based in Ireland?
RevenueBase identified 49 confectionery manufacturers headquartered in Ireland as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Butlers Chocolates, headquartered in Ireland, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most confectionery manufacturers?
Dublin leads with 8 headquartered companies, followed by Carrigaline (2) and Abbeyleix (1).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 116 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 49 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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