Campbell Catering/ Aramark presented their Artisan Supplier of the year award to Tara's at a ceremony in Dublin hosted by the redoubtable Marty Whelan.

Tara's Naturally, the Dungarvan based artisan food company beat off strong competition from around Ireland to win. The judges cited Tara's commitment to quality and innovation in what is a very competitive sector as being the primary reason for giving the award.

About Tara's Tara's provides handmade, high quality fresh cakes, cookies, slices, fruit & juice drinks and teas to food service clients, coffee shops, independent retailers and upmarket deli's throughout Ireland and the UK. Locally Butler's; Jitterbeans; EuroSpar and Garvey's carry Tara's products

About Campbell Catering Campbell Catering was founded in 1967 by Patrick and Veronica Campbell as an Irish company with a single contract turning over €50,000 with an office set up in the Campbell Family home in Swords, Co. Dublin. In the early days, Campbell Catering supplied over 35,000 sandwich lunches to 120 schools in Dublin. Later Campbell Catering obtained it's first National University contract in 1982.

In 1986, Campbell Catering acquired Bewley's developing the company into the market leading provider of hot beverage solutions in the foodservice and hospitality industries as well as a leading retail provider of ground coffee and teas.

In 1990, The Campbell Bewley Group was formed making it Ireland's leading contract catering company. Today ARAMARK/Campbell Catering is a leader in the provision of award winning food and facilities management services to clients in the pharmaceutical, IT and manufacturing sectors as well as institutions in the educational and healthcare sectors. ARAMARK/ Campbell Catering employs over 4000 people, feeds a quarter of a million people every day throughout over 420 units all across Ireland. Locally Aramark can be found in GSK; IVAX; Genzyme; Hasbro; AOL.