Musgrave MarketPlace reaches milestone of €1 million worth of food redistributed through FoodCloud

Musgrave MarketPlace, Ireland’s leading wholesale supplier to foodservice, retail, and SME businesses, is delighted to announce it has donated over 795,000 meals to charities in Ireland through its partnership with FoodCloud.  Musgrave MarketPlace has been partnered with FoodCloud since 2016 and over that period has donated a massive 334 tonnes of food, with an estimated value of €1 million worth of food redistributed.

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FoodCloud is a social enterprise that connects businesses with surplus food to charities in their local communities via their tech and warehouse solutions, allowing them to donate food easily and directly to charities that need it. Since the partnership’s commencement in 2016, 410 charities have received donations from Musgrave MarketPlace.

Through its food donations that may otherwise have been diverted to landfill, Musgrave MarketPlace has prevented over 1,000,000 kilos of CO2-equivalent emissions from entering the earth’s atmosphere and damaging the environment. As food waste is a huge contributor to climate change, its partnership with FoodCloud is a key focus for the business. Musgrave MarketPlace is committed to doing everything possible to build a more sustainable future, including increasing the number of small, local suppliers that products are sourced from, investing in new eco-friendly refrigeration systems and reducing its carbon footprint by maximising route efficiencies. The FoodCloud partnership is an important strand of the company’s overall Sustainability Strategy.

Musgrave MarketPlace donates surplus food from their seven branches nationwide directly to Irish charities through the FoodCloud app. One of the seven branches, Musgrave MarketPlace Waterford has supported local charity, U-Casadh, through the donation of 658 meals to date, used for breakfast clubs, provision of hot meals to young people and the delivery of food parcels throughout Covid-19 lockdown periods.

A spokesperson for U-Casadh said: “Thanks to FoodCloud and their partnership with Musgrave MarketPlace, we have been able to provide young people from socially challenged communities with a free breakfast club before school and a hot meal after school.”

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