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QUINN hotels
The Belfry - End to end, sausages, consumed at the Belfry each year, would go twice around the Brabazon course. A number of them would have accompanied the quarter of a million eggs and nine tonne of baked beans served per annum.
QUINN energy
Our new wind farm located in Derrylin, Co.Fermanagh produces enough energy to supply the equilavent of 30,000 homes.
QUINN glass
QUINN glass Derrylin is the only glass container plant in Ireland. Every day in QUINN glass the energy we save from recycling glass could power over 300,000 computers for a full working day.
QUINN cement
QUINN cement, the market leader in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland was the first to manufacture Blended Cement.
Company History
The QUINN group has its strategic centre located along the Cavan/Fermanagh border in Ireland with its founder, Mr Sean Quinn, as its Chairman and Managing Director.
The origins of the Group lie in the supply of sand and gravel to local builders and farmers. Founded in 1973, it has been transformed over the years from a small local enterprise into a multi national organisation.
Throughout the 1970's, the company developed its product range with the quarrying of aggregates, the production of readymix concrete, the manufacture of concrete blocks and the establishment of a concrete products manufacturing plant in Williamstown, County Galway.
With this successful base as its foundation, the company expanded into the national market in the 1980's with the establishment of a rooftile factory, a prestressed concrete factory and a 0.5 million tonnes per annum cement works at Derrylin. This was further complemented in 2000 with the opening of the Group's second cement works at Ballyconnell, County Cavan. This plant has a capacity to produce in excess of 1.3 million tonnes per annum.
The 1990's saw further expansion of the Group with additional manufacturing operations comprising QUINN lite Pac Ltd., a leading manufacturer of polystyrene insulation products; QUINN tarmac, a bituminous tar manufacturing plant; QUINN lite, an aircrete block manufacturing plant; and QUINN glass Ltd. which operates two of the most modern container glass plants in the world.
Other related operations include an 18.5 megawatt windfarm adjacent to its manufacturing base at Derrylin and a modern highly engineered landfill site in County Armagh.
The Group's insulation division was further complimented by the establishment of QUINN therm which produces polyurethane insulation products.
Hand in hand with the development of its manufacturing operations, the Group expanded its property portfolio during the 1990's. This now includes:
- The Slieve Russell Hotel and Country Club, Co. Cavan
- Buswells Hotel, Dublin
- The Iveagh Fitness Club, Dublin
- The Crown Plaza, Cambridge, UK
- The Holiday Inn, Nottingham, UK
- The Hilton Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic
- The Ibis Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic
- The Hilton Sofia, Bulgaria
- The Belfry, Wishaw, UK
Most recent acquisitions have focused on central and Eastern Europe and these include:
- Leonardo Business Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
- The Sheraton Krakow, Poland
- Kutuzoff Business Centre, Moscow, Russia
- Q-Park Logistics Park, Kazan, Russia
- Univermag Ukraina, Kiev, Ukraine
- Prestige Mall, Bahcesehir, Turkey
The public house division includes seven of the top public houses in Dublin - The Cat & Cage, Quinns of Drumcondra, The Shamrock Lodge, The Q-Bar, The Barge, Messrs Maguire - as well as Quinns Bar, Cambridge.
The Group's general insurance company, QUINN-direct Insurance, commenced trading throughout Ireland in January 1996 from its headquarters in Cavan Town. It also has branch offices in O'Connell Street, Dublin and Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, with Service Centers located at Blanchardstown, Dublin and Manchester, England and has quickly become a major player in the insurance business in Ireland and United Kingdom. With the success of its general insurance business behind it, the Group expanded into Pensions and Investments with the establishment of QUINN-life in 2000, and in 2007 through the acquisition of BUPA Ireland, now operates in the Healthcare Sector as QUINN healthcare servicing a membership base of 440,000.
In 2004 the Group acquired Barlo Group plc. Leading on from this acquisition several new divisions were formed within the Group:
- QUINN radiators, one of Europes leading producers of domestic and specification radiators.
- QUINN plastics, Europe's largests manufacture of extruded transparent sheet and coloured sheet plastics.
- QUINN packaging, which produces packaging and containers for the food industry.
In 2005, work commenced on a new radiator production facility in Newport, South Wales. This major investment created the most modern and efficient radiator plant in the world, with an expected output capacity of 4 million radiators per annum.
Within the plastics sector the Group is now embarking on a major expansion programme with the establishment of a Methylmethacrylate (MMA) production facility through its subsidiary QUINN chemicals GmbH in Leuna near Leipzig, Germany.
QUINN packaging has completed a brand new 19,000sq. m. facility at Rakeelan, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan, close to Group HQ. This new facility is focussed on servicing both the rigid and flexible packaging industries in Ireland and the UK.
