

The Alternative Pizza Company
Have you ever thought a humble Pizza could be an excellent canvas for the best ingredients from great Irish Artisan producers? Well We did
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Food and Beverage
- Location Cork, IE - Esbjerg, DK, Cork, Ireland
- Currency EUR
- Founded December 2011
- Employees 2
- Website alternativepizza.ie
Company Summary
We are a Gourmet Irish Pizza maker with a difference,all our pizzas are handmade using specially selected toppings from the best Irish artisan producers we can find.When the Pizzas are perfect we blast freeze them and put them in a plain flip top brown box with a quirky label and sell them in 150 Supermarkets throughout Ireland as well as exporting to high end retailers in the UK and Hong Kong.We believe great ingredients make great Pizzas
Team
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Martin HananMD
Acts as Managing Director, with specific responsibility for sales and marketing. He has extensive experience and a strong background in manufacture, sales and marketing of fast moving consumer goods. Initiated manufacturing start- ups in both Ireland and South Africa. A Former Ernst and Young Sponsored Young Entrepreneur of the Year, he has served as Sales Coordinator Cantrell and Cochrane, Sales Manager with Rowa Pharmaceuticals
and CEO of IB -
Marc RaffertyMarketing Social Media
Has a BSc degree in business from Trinity College graduating in 1995. Marc returned to Ireland in 2005 after 10 years experience working in the US and Holland with innovative SMEs. Since then Marc has been a socially conscious and community driven entrepreneur having grown Irish companies like www.gocar.ie, www.ebow.ie, The Real Olive Company and Alchemy Marketing. He will be invaluable in developing a community around the Alternative brand
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Frank DineenFinance Administration
specific responsibility is to manage the finance and administration for all aspects of the business for APC. Frank is a qualified CIMA Accountant with extensive experience in many early stage start-ups. He currently acts for, among others, Sage Business accounting systems.
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Stephen HennesseyProduction Assembly
Manages the assembly of Pizzas from a state of the art facility in Carrick On Shannon Co Leitrim.
He is Managing Director of The Country Cooking Company and currently employs 3 People specifically for the assembly of Pizzas
Advisors
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Padraic CullinaneLawyerUnconfirmedJames Dillane and CompanyAccountantUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Marc RaffertyUnconfirmedInvested 25,OOO Euros For 12.5% of The Company in July 2012Unconfirmed
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