2. A Little History
 he factory was opened in 1946 by Rowntrees which was
a chocolate manufacturing company with head office
in York in England
 and had sites in UK, Europe, SouthAfrica, and
Australia
 Rowntree owned the factory up until 1988 when Nestle
took over Rowntree worldwide at that time and it was a
Nestle factory from then on.

3.  he product made was chocolate crumb starting with
about 1000tonnes made in 1946 and up to 46000
tonnes at peak production in the late nineties.
 The raw materials were milk ,sugar and cocoa.

4.  Milk supplied by Ballyclough coop /Dairygold. 20
million gallons per year.
 Sugar manufactured in Mallow and supplied to
Rowntrees. 25000 tonnes per year.
 Cocoa used was processed on site for many years up to
1990 made from cocoa beans imported from
Nigeria, ghana, and the ivory coast.

5. International impact!
 Cocoa used was processed on site for many years up to
1990 made from cocoa beans imported from
Nigeria, ghana, and the ivory coast.
 Chocolate crumb was sent to other Rowntree factories
Located at Inchicore Dublin, and
York, Glasgow, Norwich , and Halifax in England.
 Crumb was also exported to Canada for manufacture
into Rowntree brands there where it was done under
license by a company named Hershey.

6. Jobs??
 There were about 80 people employed there from the
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1980 onwards.
Before that up to 200 people were employed but the
high labour jobs were engineered out with new
machinery .
Management and Lab Jobs were mainly from food
science graduates from UCC.
Electricians, fitters, and civil trades were contracted in.
The plant operated 24/7 on three shifts and these
general workers came form Mallow town, and local
areas they were trained in house as plant operators.

7. What did it do for Mallow??
 80 direct employees. Approx 4 million euro in wages
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into local area.
4 MILLION!!!
Took milk from approx. 400 local farmers through
coop Dairygold.
was the biggest customer of the local sugar factory.
Employed haulage contractors, including the railway
as a lot of crumb went by rail.
a lot of spin off to local engineering companies .

8. Why is it gone??
 Dairygold owned the site in Mallow and the Nestle owned
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the plant itself and all employees were Nestle.
Dairygold indicated to Nestle that all production would
stop in Mallow and the site would be developed in the
building boom at that time.
Due to this uncertainty Nestle decided to expand
production in Girvan and close Mallow.
The closure was announced in 2004 and production
stopped in July 2006.
All the machinery etc was sold and the factory cleared out
by Nestle who handed back the facility to Dairygold in Dec
2006.