Doing The Business

Silver service: How Monaghan’s Silver Hill Duck went global

According to managing director Micheál Briody, the continuing success of the business is down to its people

Micheál Briody of Silver Hill Duck: “We’re very proud of being from Emyvale; we want to grow the business from here.”

If you’ve ever strolled through London’s Chinatown, the rows of glistening roast ducks hanging in the windows of its restaurants will be a familiar sight. But would you ever guess that they came from Co Monaghan?

They are likely to be Silver Hill ducks, the supplier of choice in Chinatowns in Britain, and increasingly in major cities all over the world. It is a unique success story according to Micheál Briody, who has been managing ...