'Service and standards' key in food and drink businesses

As one of the Musgrave Group’s bigger Dublin SuperValu owners, Luke Moriarty employs 650 people at his €50 million-plus turnover operation

Luke MoriartyPic: Maura Hickey

CV: Luke Moriarty

Role: founder of the Moriarty Group

Age:61

Lives: Palmerstown, Dublin 20

Family: children Laura, Yvonne and James, and four grandchildren

Favourite film: any old Denzel Washington movie like The Pelican Brief

Hobbies: Kerry GAA, Munster rugby, politics, golf and travel

About this time 30 years ago, a young Dunnes Stores manager saw a struggling SuperValu store in a south Dublin suburb was for sale and bought it. Now his business ...