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RNS Number : 8474O  Cooks Coffee Company Limited  05 December 2024

5 December 2024

 

Cooks Coffee Company Limited

 

("Cooks Coffee", or the "Company" or the "Group")

 

Esquires Expansion in Ireland

 

Cooks Coffee Company, (NZX:CCC; AQUIS:COOK), the international coffee focused
café chain, announces that it has entered an agreement between Dairygold Agri
Business Limited (Dairygold) and Esquires Coffee House Ireland Ltd (Esquires)
for Esquires to operate and manage four cafés within Co-Op Superstores owned
by Dairygold, in Ireland.

 

The contract will be for an initial period of 10 years and is effective
immediately. The cafés are based in Midleton, Carrigaline and Mallow in Cork
and Raheen in Limerick. Dairygold's retail business operates 26 stores across
Munster under the Co-Op Superstores brand.

 

Dairygold is one of Ireland's leading Irish farmer owned co-operatives,
consisting of dairy, nutritionals and agri business and employing over 1,300
people. With a rich history spanning decades, Dairygold has been supporting
its farmer members for over a century.

 

Cooks Coffee Company owns the global rights* to the Esquires brand and has its
core focus on the UK and Ireland. With more than 100 stores in its portfolio
globally, the Company is experiencing a period of rapid development and
growth.  The focus of the business is to create an ethical café group
operated by local people and promote individual entrepreneurship and community
engagement. With the addition of these garden centre cafés, there will now be
19 stores in Ireland.

 

Aiden Keegan, Chief Executive of Cooks, commented: "We look forward to
building the partnership with Dairygold and to sharing Esquires great food,
coffee and hospitality in the Co-op cafes that we will operate with pride."

 

https://www.dairygold.ie/

 

https://www.cookscoffeecompany.com/ (https://www.cookscoffeecompany.com/)

 

*except for Australia and New Zealand

 

Enquiries:

 

 Cooks Coffee Company Limited        +64 21 702 509 (New Zealand)
 Keith Jackson (Executive Chairman)  keith.jackson@cookscoffeecompany.com
                                     (mailto:keith.jackson@cookscoffeecompany.com)

                                     +44 (0) 20 3934 6630 (UK)
                                     ukinvestorrelations@cookscoffeecompany.com
                                     (mailto:ukinvestorrelations@cookscoffeecompany.com)

 

 IFC Advisory Limited (Financial PR & IR)         +44 (0) 20 3934 6630
 Tim Metcalfe, Graham Herring, Florence Chandler  cookscoffee@investor-focus.co.uk (mailto:cookscoffee@investor-focus.co.uk)

 

 

 

   Oberon Capital
 
      +44 (0) 20 3179 5300

   Nick Lovering, Adam Pollock, Mike Seabrook

 

 

 

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