{"id":34303,"date":"2025-08-31T07:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34303\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T07:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:39:09","slug":"why-not-build-a-factory-in-the-us-crunch-time-for-keoghs-crisps-growth-plans-as-global-demand-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34303\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why not build a factory in the US?\u2019 \u2013 Crunch time for Keogh\u2019s crisps growth plans as global demand surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nA developing taste for the luxury crisp outside Ireland will require a new manufacturing site, says MD Tom Keogh, but exorbitant build costs here mean they may have to look elsewhere\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"While tariffs were initially a concern, they haven\u2019t affected sales across the Atlantic,\u00a0 say Keogh. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e0eede30-16cb-47d7-8d58-15a269ed2e1a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">While tariffs were initially a concern, they haven\u2019t affected sales across the Atlantic,\u00a0 say Keogh. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Spiralling construction costs could force one of the country\u2019s most recognisable homegrown crisps brands to invest in a new factory outside of Ireland due to the \u201cextremely prohibitive\u201d cost of building here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tom Keogh, the potato-farmer-turned-crisp magnate behind Keogh\u2019s Crisps, told the Sunday Independent that the business has been preparing plans to build a new 9,290 sq m manufacturing facility beside its current site near Oldtown, Co Dublin, to help it deal with surging international demand for its crisps and popcorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A developing taste for the luxury crisp outside Ireland will require a new manufacturing site, says MD Tom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,1265,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-34303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-sean-pollock","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}