Boyne Valley Foods (Drogheda) now own the Gateaux brand, so it’s still an Irish brand.

Does Boyne Valley manufacture Gateaux branded products in Ireland?

Agree totally with you Ulick I remember visiting the factory and wanted to work there when I grew up. Paradise to a child and I still buy their sweets especially chocolate orange.

Will you please send a letter to the Irish Union for Bees and ask them to direct its members to produce more stick stuff.

Oh, blame the workers, as usual!

Chinese Honey is what they use ,i would rather eat grass than that rubbish

But we go out for Chinese take away that never saw China!

People who remember WWII are as much a part of society as teenagers who buy push pops.

I don’t remember WWII, but I will remember Oatfield sweets…

You people don’t give a sh*t about the lives affected by those job loses and you’ll be the first shower to start whinging about dole spongers when the opportunity arises. I’d rather the had let Anglo fail,and yet here again another example of or governments failure to protect local business and local employment. An Irish company in Irish ownership forever is bought out in 2007 and jobs exported over the water never to return to Donegal, meanwhile we continue to pump money into these God awful banks. Globalisation is no not helping our country, an “open economy” is only a code word for being open to exploitation as foreign companies come here like locusts and bleed the place dry. Small Irish companies cannot compete head to head with global multinationals it’s not a level playing field.

I worked in convenience retail for 10 years and in that time can’t remember Oatfield bringing out a single new product, or certainly not one that made any significant impact in the market. This, coupled with a lack of advertising and seriously dated packaging/branding lead to a decline in demand for their products and that is why they are where they are today. This has nothing to do with globalisation, or the banks or the government. It’s a business faltering through a lack of innovation and investment over many years. If the government is going to protect Irish companies I’d rather see them protect ones which are at least trying.