Press

We’ve been lucky enough to enjoy some great press over the years, here are some highlights!

2020

the Examiner March 2020
’Cully & Sully helps to soup up beach clean efforts’
the Examiner March 2020

2019 - Grow2CEO

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Home Style Magazine April 2019
‘Cully and Sully soups are deliciously fresh and wholesome’
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Shelflife Magazine Feb 2019
The campaign was launched in Cork by Cully and Sully co-founder Cullen Allen and Mick Kelly, founder of GIY

2018- Broths Launch

Checkout magazine Aug 2018
’We are delighted with the growth of the brand year on year and being no. 50 in the top Irish brands is really amazing’
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Winner of Best New Product launch at the National FMCG awards for our broths
Checkout Magazine Feb 2018
‘Cully and Sully recently launched a range of broths to add to their existing range… Irish celebrities such as Roz Purcell and James Kavanagh are already raving about the range’

2017- Launch of premium range

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Checkout Top 100 2017
Rena explains that this growth comes from a focus on quality and taste “we pay special attention to our ingredients and we take time to cook our soups like you would at home”
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Checkout magazine Oct 2017
Winner of best sponsorship/brand association. ‘Give Peas a Chance campaign has been a huge success for the brand’
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RSVP March 2017
’Cully and Sully has just launched a new range of premium pies and broths made for sharing… the brand is confident consumers will share the team’s love for them’
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ShelfLife Oct 2017
‘Cully and Sully is now Ireland’s no1 1 soup across chilled and ambient, beating Knorr to the number one spot’

2016- Give Peas a Chance

Top 100 Brands 2016
Rena on the brand’s nine place climb up this year’s Top 100 Brands list to 60 “Our soups are made in Ireland to the highest standards and we pay very close attention to seasonal variation on ingredients”
Checkout Magazine March 2016
“We are delighted to be helping plant up the winning garden at Cork Association for Authism… Our aim, with the help of our friends at GIY is to make our Give Peas a Chance movement even bigger for 2016”
Irish Examiner July 2016
GIY and Cully and Sully have put a call out to businesses across Ireland to sign up to their ‘al desko’ food initiative…”We share GIYs view that if we can get people re-connected with their food by growing some of it themselves we canmake a healthier, happier, sustainable world”

2015

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Checkout Mag Oct 2015
“We are introducing a special guest soup to enable us to bring new SKU’s into the category. Our first ‘Special Guest’ Squashed Veggie will be available in all good stores from October”
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ShelfLife Feb 2015
“Cully and Sully have linked up with Heart Children Ireland and have pledged to make a donation from sales of their limited edition soup to this very worthy cause”

2014

ShelfLife Oct 2014
- ”Cully and Sully is delighted to be Ireland’s no 1 chilled soup and in celebration of this the company is launching it’s new ‘Tall’ packs”
Coeliac Ireland Spring 2014
“Cully and Sully has added a new soup flavor- Lentil and smoked bacon”

2013

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Checkout magazine Aug 2013
Cully and Sully debuts on the Top 100 brands at 91

2012

Irish Examiner Sept 2012
”What we always had in our heads, from the beginning when we started our business, was that by he end of 2010 we’d look at the business and work out what to do next”
Irish Independent July 2012
‘8 years after building their brand from scratch, lifelong friends are keeping a firm lid on just how much it was that a US giant paid for their business’
Sunday Independent Life Magazine Feb 2012
’It’s time and attention to detail that makes the difference… We’ve been through thick and thin and it hasn’t always been easy but we pulled through it and managed to laugh our way through it’

2011- Chef Factor

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Cork Independent Sept 2011
Last Year’s Chef Factor saw well over 100,000 people registering their votes online and it’s return has been widely tipped as one of the hottest events in food
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Evening Echo Nov 2011
‘The winner was decided by an audience of Chef Factor entrants, along with judges Culy and Sully and Rachel and Darina Allen at the live final in Ballymaloe’.
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Country Living Oct 2011
‘A young Irish food company however is quickly bucking the trend and has given the term ‘convienince food’ a whole new meaning and image’

2010 - Broths Launch

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Checkout magazine Aug 2018-’We are delighted with the growth of the brand year on year and being no. 50 in the top Irish brands is really amazing’
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Checkout Mag- Winner of Best New Product launch at the National FMCG awards for our broths
Checkout Magazine Feb 2018
- ‘Cully and Sully recently launched a range of broths to add to their existing range… Irish celebrities such as Roz Purcell and James Kavanagh are already raving about the range’

2009 - Hot Pot Launch

Checkout, August 09 - Top 100 brands 09. “Newcomer Cully & Sully enters the list at No. 4”  of canned/packet/fresh soup category   

2008 - Broths Launch

You & Your Money 2008
Sully on starting the business “The first eighteen months were a rollercoaster, we were doing everything- absolutely everything- ourselves, from stock-taking to traveling up and down the country doing cooking demonstrations. We were making mistakes. And earning nothing”
Irish Examiner, January 2008
"Tastes exactly of its uncomplication list of ingredients”
The Irish Times, October 2008
Sullys’ comment on being the first Irish food Business to win the Sial d’Or: “The guy from Coca-Cola had a look on his face to say ‘ Who the hell are Cully & Sully?! ‘ It was like the Eurovision song contest”

2007

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Evening Echo March 2007
“Essentially its just the two of us. We’re not big enough to have a PA just yet and we don’t event have an office!”
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Sunday Business Post, 2007
Winners of FMCG category and overall eircom Grand Priz winners ” The website is almost good enough to eat”
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Irish Times, August 2007
The food market is a bit crowded these days, but taste, ingredients and the method by which they food is cooked set their offering apart, Sully says”

2006 - Soup Launch

Evening Echo October 2006
“Next week they launch their new range of soups and they hope it will be a springboard for further success”
Irish Daily Star, Ocotber 2006
On Cully & Sullys new soup range“ Gordan Ramsay better watch out – Co Corks finest grub-makers have developed a secret weapon”

2005 - Target Pubs

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Shelflife, March 2005
“The landscape of the Irish Manufacturing industry is littered with start-up casualties…However one small, Cork-based company is bucking this trend and it seems youth, passion, a great product and self-belief are the ingredients in this particular business model”
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Sunday Tribune 2005
“Cully & Sully is already branching out, expanding the business to target pubs”
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Brendan O’ Connor 2005
"I tried the shepherd’s pie, and the wife tried the fish pie, and I can report that they are nothing short of excellent, the kind of ready-meal for which this column lives…hopefully Cully and Sully wil grow and grow”

2004

Food and Wine Magazine, 2004
“If you thought M&S made the best ready-made meals you are in for a surprise. There’s a new kid on the block, well, two in fact, Cully & Sully”
Irish Tatler, November 2004
“Cullen Allen & Colum O’ Sullivan are changing the definition of convenience food..They are using a French Preparation method which omits the use of additives and persavities….Trust us this is the best think you are going to find in your local convenience store”
Checkout September 2004
Cully and Sully claimed the award in the ready meals category”

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