‘When I talk with my children, I tell them that honest hard work will give the desired outcomes’

The business that Maurice Healy founded in 1985 as Healy Chemical is now the Healy Group, one of the state’s best-known food ingredient and chemical distributors

Maurice Healy, chief executive, the Healy Group Picture: Fergal Phillips

For Maurice Healy, founder and chief executive of the Healy Group, there’s no secret to success. But that doesn’t make it easy to achieve. “You predetermine success,” he says. “All outcomes are up to your effort.”

Healy is living proof of this maxim. The business that he founded in 1985 as Healy Chemical is now the Healy Group, one of the state’s best-known food ingredient and chemical distributors.

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