» Conor Hyde

Conor Hyde (BSc. MMII), Managing Director, Bullseye Food Marketing:

Conor Hyde founded Bullseye Food Marketing in 2001 to service a growing demand for expert, best practice, business marketing support for owner-managed SME food companies on an outsourced basis.

Conor has over twenty years Sales & Marketing experience having held senior Marketing Manager positions with Golden Vale/Kerry & Dairygold Co-op. Over the years, he has successfully managed FIVE of Irelands TOP 100 grocery brands such as: Dairygold, Mitchesltown, Cheestrings, Easisingles, Galtee, Calvita, Golden Olive, Golden Pastures, Country Pride, Ballyclough, Easigold, Churn, Charleville.

Conor lectures in food marketing for UCC, IMI, BIM, Teagasc, ICOS, SKILLSNET, Udaras Na Gaeltachta and LEADER Networks. He is also an approved business mentor with Bord Bia, Enterprise Ireland, City & County Enterprise Boards, BIM and the IEA.

Over the past ten years Conor has worked directly as a food business consultant and mentor with over 100 Irish SME food companies. He was recently chosen as an expert consultant to appear on the televised RTE series “Higher Ground” which assists rural entrepreneurs to start their own on-farm businesses.

Originally an Honours B.Sc. graduate of Food Business from University College Cork, Conor is also a current serving council member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland  (www.mii.ie).