Keogh’s Crisps accumulated €1.2m in pre-pandemic profits

Crisp maker sees assets rise from €2.8m to €3.2m in year to end of March 2020

Derek, Ross and Tom Keogh of Keogh’s Crisps: The business was set up in 2011 by the Keogh farming family in north Dublin who have been producing potatoes in the area for generations.

Accumulated profits at Keogh’s Crisps rose to €1.2 million before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, new accounts show, with the company’s directors saying it had performed strongly through the lockdowns.

The most recently filed accounts, which run to the end of March 2020, show a modest profit of €99,491, which was an improvement on the loss of €3,429 for the previous year.

The amount of cash in the company also nearly doubled, to €853,777 from €452,643, ...