Appetite for growth: Dublin Food Sales targeting €30m turnover

Richard Meehan of Dublin Food Sales has big plans for the companyFergal Phillips

The owner of a Dublin-based food distribution company plans to grow it to a €30 million business within four years, having secured a multimillion-euro investment from BDO’s EII fund.

Richard Meehan, who is also the majority shareholder in the software company Vcloud and the non-executive chairman of the German property investment fund Greenman, acquired Dublin Food Sales, a long-established firm based in Glasnevin, last year.

“Initially I hadn’t planned to come in and ...