An affordable place to work is the bedrock of the BIA Innovator Campus offering to food entrepreneurs.
BIA OBAIR fulfils a real need and tackles a bottleneck in scaling our regional food companies. It consists of 12 food-grade production units and 4 pay-per-use kitchens allowing a continuum of growth options.
Considerable research and reference to best practice, consultation and collaboration has gone into BIA OBAIR, crafting a formula of unit specialization and scale to allow companies to progress from a hot desk in BIA EOLAS to using a specialist per-use production kitchen to taking a Starter Unit to progressing to a Growth/HPSU unit as their business develops. Of course, companies can go straight in at Growth Unit level should they be at that scale.
BIA OBAIR fulfils a real need and tackles a bottleneck in scaling our regional food companies. It consists of 12 food-grade production units and 4 pay-per-use specialist food production units allowing a continuum of growth options
Find the right place to produce
Users of the units will have access to BIA Innovator Campus Innovation Specialists whose role is to support new products from concept approval to launch.
Be co-located with a community of food and drink businesses. Networking is a really crucial part of overall BIA Innovator Campus experience. Participants and staff will be encouraged to build and share networks. We will also use our reach and influence to plug food entrepreneurs into an active network of professionals, suppliers and potential investors who can help accelerate their company’s growth.
Benefit From BIA LUAS support of food businesses to grow and scale through:
This area will facilitate peer learning and problem solving, mentor coaching and client meetings. This will also act as base for Local Enterprise Office Galway access to an business advisory support and mentor panel.
This dedicated area will operate as a space to host small trade events, meet and present to buyers – a place to do business.
4 specialist co-working food labs specialising in Dairy, Meat, Seafood and Low Risk Products
BIA OBAIR will provide fully equipped Pay-per-use food production units where established small businesses can co-work and cut their operating costs. These flexible processing areas are excellent in allowing start-up businesses to scale up kitchen recipes into a larger more commercial, more automated and more efficient production.
Add value to milk, develop + produce artisan cheeses, ice-cream, yogurts, etc
Add value to beef, lamb, and game
Add value to Ireland’s abundant aquaculture and ocean resources
Low risk food production spaces for bakery and consumer foods
Each unit is fully equipped with high end specialist equipment to add value to your produce
Simply bring your ingredients and packaging, pay only for the time you use
Benefit from food tech specialists to help you develop a recipe into a shelf-stable compliant product
Each unit is fully equipped with high end specialist equipment to add value to your produce. Simply bring your ingredients and packaging, pay only for the time you use. Benefit from inhouse food technology specialists to help you develop a recipe into a shelf-stable compliant product
Prior to use, you will be provided with a full induction and brief training on the equipment by our onsite food technologists, who can support your development journey whilst using the kitchens.
Another milestone has been reached here BIA Innovator Campus as we welcome Rosaleen and Niall Coates of Rosaleen’s Kitchen as they accept keys to their new production facility.
Rosaleen’s Kitchen is a certified Gluten Free and Wheat Free artisan bakery supplying made to order breads, scones, cakes and seasonal products. They are industry leaders in this sector having recently scooped no less that seven awards at the Free From Awards, including the 2023 Innovation award.
In 2022, Rosaleen launched her new range of innovative and high-quality baking mixes ‘Crust from Rosaleen’s Kitchen’. Check out the range here – Crust – Rosaleen’s Kitchen Home – Rosaleen’s Kitchen (rosaleenskitchen.ie)
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Athenry, Co Galway
H65 DD86
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