{"id":796736,"date":"2026-10-09T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796736\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:30:11","slug":"glens-of-antrim-potatoes-collapses-into-administration-after-54-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796736\/","title":{"rendered":"Glens of Antrim Potatoes collapses into administration after 54 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

A UK crisp brand stocked in major supermarkets including Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s has collapsed after 54 years in business.<\/p>\n

The company has stopped trading, leaving almost 100 workers facing redundancy in what administrators have described as a “tremendously sad outcome”.<\/p>\n

Glens of Antrim Potatoes Ltd, a Northern Irish potato supplier and crisp manufacturer founded in 1972, has entered administration after struggling with rising costs.<\/p>\n

The company, which operated from Cushendall and Ballymena, started out supplying potatoes before expanding into crisps sold across the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n

Administrators from Interpath were appointed on September 21, with the business immediately closing its operations.<\/p>\n

Almost all of its 95 employees have lost their jobs, with only a small number staying on to help with the administration process.<\/p>\n

Stuart Irwin, managing director at Interpath, said: “Glens of Antrim has been growing and supplying potatoes across Ireland for over 50 years, so this is a tremendously sad outcome for the business, its dedicated team, the agri-food sector in Northern Ireland, and the wider community.”<\/p>\n

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Glens of Antrim Potatoes Ltd has entered administration after struggling with rising costs<\/p>\n

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The administrators are helping affected employees following the closure, which has also dealt a blow to the local communities where the company operated.<\/p>\n

The business had been struggling with rising farming, staffing, fuel and energy costs.<\/p>\n

These increasing expenses, alongside growing cash flow problems, eventually left the company unable to continue trading.<\/p>\n

In an effort to keep the business afloat, directors pursued several avenues including refinancing arrangements and attracting fresh investment.<\/p>\n

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Glens is stocked in major supermarkets including Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s alongside other popular crisp brands <\/p>\n

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None of these options ultimately proved workable, leaving administration as the only remaining course of action.<\/p>\n

The wider agri-food sector in Northern Ireland has faced sustained financial strain, with rising operational costs squeezing margins for producers and suppliers at every stage of the chain.<\/p>\n

Products from Glens of Antrim were stocked by Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s, with the firm producing a variety of signature flavours under its own brand. <\/p>\n

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The company’s former headquarters near Ballymena have been put on the market at \u00a32.6million<\/p>\n

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The company’s former headquarters near Ballymena have been put on the market at \u00a32.6 million.<\/p>\n

Interpath is now inviting expressions of interest from potential purchasers of the company’s remaining business and assets.<\/p>\n

The closure is the latest in a series of UK food businesses going into administration this year.<\/p>\n

Fairoak Foods, Millennium Dough Company, Every Fresh Dairy and King Foods have also collapsed in 2026, as rising costs and difficult trading conditions continue to put pressure on the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A UK crisp brand stocked in major supermarkets including Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s has collapsed after 54 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,1294,59,2222,2331,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-gb","tag-money","tag-sgg","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}