Map Irish food and beverage accounts by activity

Write the activity you need to investigate and the geographical rule. For this guide’s fictional exercises, the territory is production or packing in the Republic of Ireland, and the counting unit is one company account with its relevant operations underneath. This does not include Northern Ireland unless you explicitly change the brief.

Choose a question such as:

• Which companies themselves prepare or transform a food or beverage at an in-scope site?
• Which companies themselves fill or pack food or drink at an in-scope site?
• Which companies manage a product brand, whether or not they perform production?

Do not combine those questions into “food companies” and then make every result pass. If both makers and packers matter, retain separate activity tests. If operating the facility matters, make that an additional test: performing work at a place and operating that facility are different questions.

A seed account is optional. An existing customer may help explain the activity you mean, but its reputation, product category or brand portfolio is not an inclusion rule. No project announcement is required for an industry-matched account.

Use these working labels only for this research exercise. They are not legal findings about brand ownership or food-business responsibilities. Do not make them mutually exclusive.

Record a link, not a label. Write “Company X performs activity Y at site Z”, with evidence references for each part. If the source only connects X to a brand, record that narrower relationship. Leave Y and Z unresolved.

Keep “not established” distinct from “explicitly does not”. If one page establishes brand management but says nothing about manufacturing, it has not established a brand-only business. Likewise, a packing description does not establish either the presence or absence of upstream food making.

Create an operation slice for one company, one site and one activity. Reuse the company ID across slices; give each slice its own ID. This lets a mixed business retain its different roles without becoming several supposed accounts.

For each slice, ask:

1. Product: which food or drink family is actually named? Is the statement about this company’s work or its customers’ products?
2. Action: what does the company say it does—prepare, blend, cook, ferment, fill, pack, repack or store? These are question prompts, not a claim that any process occurs at the candidate.
3. Performer: does the evidence attribute that action to the company itself, another named company or an unspecified partner?
4. Place: is the activity tied to a specific in-scope location? Is the company the site operator, a visiting service provider, or still unresolved?
5. Work relationship: is the activity described as own-product work, work for other businesses, both, or unknown? Do not identify undisclosed customers.
6. Boundary: what part of the process is not established? Record the gap before deciding the segment.

Retain the words needed to describe the work, not guessed equipment. For example, a research question about filling does not establish a filling-machine type, operating speed, installed pump, hygiene specification, certification or compatibility with your range. Technical requirements and equipment selection need a separate qualified assessment.

When the product and site point to different businesses

Do not transfer the production evidence to the brand account. Record the supported relationship, then assess the performing company separately if it falls within the brief. A reference to an unnamed partner stays unnamed. Do not guess a manufacturer from packaging appearance, a shared address or a familiar brand.

Where a group operates several sites, keep the site evidence attached to the supported operating company. A parent, subsidiary and trading brand are not automatically three accounts—or automatically one. Hold unresolved identity relationships rather than using a group-wide claim to fill every subsidiary’s record.

Start with activity questions rather than equipment-seller terms. Suggested exploratory searches include Ireland food contract manufacturing production site, Ireland beverage filling packing facility and Ireland food brand manufacturing partner. These exact prompts are suggestions, not measured demand, ranking evidence or tested coverage filters.

Inspect the underlying company activity and location pages. Follow a discovery result only as far as needed to answer the missing question. For each proposed observation, check the applicable source and item-use conditions for your intended research, customer output and any public reuse. A page being visible does not settle those conditions.

Use a public list or directory only within its stated scope and permitted use. Do not treat it as a complete market census, export its entries by default, or interpret a missing entry as evidence of no production. A membership, approval or certification reference is not a substitute for your activity-and-site test, nor a finding of technical suitability.

Keep a short evidence trail: exact URL, source publication date if given, actual checked-at time, the fact supported, what it does not establish, and the source-use decision. If rights remain unresolved, hold the affected observation out of the reusable worksheet and delivery; retain only the minimal permitted review reference in your controlled process. Do not paste restricted text into a new “original summary”.

Everything in this section is invented. All organisations, sites and evidence are fictional teaching material, not researched companies, anonymised clients or customer outcomes. No real source dates or contact details exist for these examples.

• Brief M — making: research companies that themselves perform an evidenced food-or-drink preparation or transformation activity at a site in the Republic of Ireland. Filling or packing alone does not satisfy this activity rule.
• Brief P — packing: research companies that themselves perform evidenced food-or-drink filling or packing at a site in the Republic of Ireland. Brand management alone does not satisfy this activity rule.

Neither brief requires ownership or operation of the facility; add that condition explicitly if it matters. These cases test activity and place only. “Match” is not final account acceptance: identity, exclusions, source-use and other agreed checks still apply.

Change one rule and rerun the decision. If Brief P also requires the company to operate the facility, E moves from activity/place match to hold. C’s stipulated facility operation supports that additional test. The product category has not changed; the required company-to-site relationship has.

The blank CSV is a single-operation template with a blank value column. Copy it for another operation; keep a common company ID for operations belonging to the same supported company. The fictional CSV is separate and contains invented operation records only. Its full-account review status is not_assessed: the exercise tests activity and place, not complete account acceptance.

Complete the template in this order:

1. Brief: fix the version, territory, activity rule and whether facility operation is required. Reference exclusions through your controlled workflow, not by inserting a confidential customer list.
2. Identity and product: identify the company being counted and any supported brand relationship. Leave unknown legal-entity relationships unresolved.
3. Operation: record the activity, performing company, place, operator relationship and own-product/third-party-work distinction. Keep one slice focused on one activity and site.
4. Evidence: link each identity, activity and location fact to its evidence record. A single URL may not support every field. Record source-use status and contradictions separately.
5. Decision: choose match, hold or out_of_scope for the activity/place screen. Then make a separate full-account decision of include, hold or exclude, with the rule and reason.

Use hold when a required fact is missing, conflicting or unusable. Use out_of_scope only when supported evidence contradicts the relevant activity or place rule. If required exclusion checks are incomplete, the full account stays held even when the operation matches. Do not add points for a famous brand to compensate for a missing operator link.

For company totals, deduplicate the included company IDs, not the slice IDs, brand names or number of matching roles. Keep held records out of accepted totals. If several slices support the same company, retain the evidence for each without counting the company again.

A useful handover says which company-to-activity-to-place links are supported, which brief they meet and which question would change the decision. It does not say the company needs your machinery, buys components directly, has an open equipment package or intends to purchase.

Keep project research separate: not_assessed_not_required is different from a bounded project search that found no qualifying signal. Neither means no project exists. Do not manufacture a project signal to make an industry-matched account appear more valuable.

This worksheet contains no personal-contact fields and gives no permission for outreach or legal clearance. Counts, fields, research limits and any commercial delivery need separate written agreement.

Use the manufacturing account-research guide for the broader discovery process, the pump and flow-control guide for supplier-route and application questions, and the fictional account sample for a complete record illustration. For this food-and-beverage brief, bring the Product–Work–Place questions to a written research scope.

Method note: the framework, questions, worksheet and fictional cases are original instructional material. This page does not reproduce a directory, classify real companies, report market size or assert equipment suitability.