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Best selling Irish brands online in the US ?

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  • 23-09-2014 6:59pm
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    OU812
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    Anyone in the US care to hazard a guess as to the best selling Irish brands online in the US ?

    by that I mean Companies selling through their own sites not amazon etc.


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    dave2pvd
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    Viagra? Nicorette??


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    Ponster
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    My bet would be Fyffes.

    edit : sorry I thought you were looking for companies.

    It's probably some lad in Mayo selling Aran jumpers.


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    Grab All Association
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    Jameson, Waterford Crystal, Coca Cola (not Irish but the concentrate is made in Mayo) Tic Tacs


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    Ponster
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    Chris___ wrote: »
    Tic Tacs

    I doubt that Tic Tac has an Irish website :)

    Read the OPs questions again. he wants Irish companies that Americans order stuff from online from their own websites.


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    lazeedaisy
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    And they only want people in US to respond...


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    ProudDUB
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    Chris___ wrote: »
    Jameson, Waterford Crystal, Coca Cola (not Irish but the concentrate is made in Mayo) Tic Tacs

    Every market has its own concentrate making plant.


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    alias no.9
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    Guinness and U2 but both use third party distribution channels


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    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,050 ✭✭✭OU812


    Ok, you've got the likes of waterford crystal, blarney woolen mills who sell their wares, also tayto, but only two out of the three of those are truely Irish. There must be more...??


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    ProudDUB
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    Kerrygold butter is sold in a lot of US supermarkets. Dunno if its sold online though, due to its perishability.


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    silja
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    Cadburry's?


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    Grab All Association
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    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Every market has its own concentrate making plant.

    Wrong sir wrong sir

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/this-150m-plants-the-real-thing-for-jobsstarved-mayo-26192852.html
    Coca-Cola only has two other main concentrate plants in Puerto Rico and France.

    http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11547:coca-cola-celebrates-10-years-in-ballina&catid=23:news&Itemid=46
    The concentrates made there are used in the production of some of the worlds’ most well known brands including Coca-Cola, Fanta, and Sprite. These concentrates are sold to bottlers on four continents who manufacture the final products for customers all over the world.


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    ProudDUB
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    Fair enough so, but I'd be very surprised if US plants used concentrate made in Mayo, when Puerto Rico is on their doorstep.


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    spideog7
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    I don't think very many of the brands mentioned so far meet the OP's requirements. My guess would be that any Irish brands sold through their own online store to US consumers wouldn't be any of the big brands that most people know. I can't think of very many. O'Neills maybe but I doubt they'd sell much over here. Butlers chocolate would be another one. Aer Lingus would be a big one given the nature of their business.


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    Ponster
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    I think that spideog has it, Are Lingus !


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    yew_tree
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    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Every market has its own concentrate making plant.

    The concentrate made in Westport is shipped Worldwise including the US.

    Another product made in Mayo is Botox (80% of the world's botox in fact) by Alergan Pharmaceuticals - Id imagine there is a fair bit of Mayo Botox floating around LA ;)


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    Yamanoto
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    silja wrote: »
    Cadburry's?

    British brand, owned by a US multinational.


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    Dave1442397
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    I'd also go with Aer Lingus.

    I can't remember ever ordering anything directly from an Irish website apart from plane tickets, and I've been shopping online in the US since 1996.

    I've bought some Irish products online over the years, but it's always been through Amazon or ebay. I typically use Amazon because I can use one credit card across multiple Amazon sites. I've used Amazon.ca, .uk, .de and .jp to order things I couldn't get on Amazon.com.


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    dave2pvd
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    Dave1442397 wrote: »
    I'd also go with Aer Lingus.

    I can't remember ever ordering anything directly from an Irish website apart from plane tickets, and I've been shopping online in the US since 1996.

    I've bought some Irish products online over the years, but it's always been through Amazon or ebay. I typically use Amazon because I can use one credit card across multiple Amazon sites. I've used Amazon.ca, .uk, .de and .jp to order things I couldn't get on Amazon.com.


    Indeed, Aer Lingus fits the bill. But Ryanair fly far more people and cannot be bought through 3rd party sites.


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    Ponster
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    dave2pvd wrote: »
    But Ryanair fly far more people and cannot be bought through 3rd party sites.

    I'd bet that more Americans buy tickets from Aer Lingus than Ryanair.


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    Dave1442397
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    Ponster wrote: »
    I'd bet that more Americans buy tickets from Aer Lingus than Ryanair.

    Yeah, I'd say so too. I have no reason to ever buy Ryanair tickets, but I've bought a lot of Aer Lingus tickets over the past 30 years.


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    yew_tree
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    You could also add Kerry Group I would imagine. I think they employ a few thousand in the US.


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    TheMilkyPirate
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    dave2pvd wrote: »
    Viagra? Nicorette??

    What makes you think there Irish?


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    Mars Bar
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    Viagra was discovered in Cork but is that the name of the drug itself or is it the brand name?


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    dave2pvd
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    Viagra is manufactured by Pfizer in Ireland. Is it Irish? Probably not.
    Nicorette, I thought was an Elan Corporation (founded in Athlone in 1969) product. I was wrong - they lost that one. However they have developed quite a few lucrative drug products over the years. If any of those products are available for order online, Elan could have one of the best selling Irish brands online in the US.

    However, my money is on Aer Lingus. Their ownership is mostly Irish.


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