Serving and supporting communities - for more than 130 years

Musgrave started with a very strong partnership. Two brothers, Stuart and Thomas, opened a grocery store on North Main Street in Cork back in 1876. What’s changed since then?  The truth is everything and nothing.

We remain an independent family business that forges enduring partnerships with other family businesses – retailers and suppliers – to serve and help maintain vibrant local communities. We continue to stick to our values, which reject greed and emphasise long-term stable relationships, honesty, working hard and achievement. We like to think these values resonate with the families using the stores associated with our brands.

And like most family businesses, we tend to think long-term, which is why we continue to have close relationships with many of the companies and communities that have helped make us what we are today.

A focus on sustainable communities is certainly what defines our retail partners. They own their own stores and are major stakeholders in their own communities, uniquely positioned to provide a tailored offer and to understand and meet specific local needs.

This is a key point of difference, which goes beyond mere commercial transactions and sees our retail partners playing a central role in the life of towns and villages.

Local ownership and the positioning of our stores at the heart of local communities is key to the delivery of a genuine community active retailing model. Secure local employment, along with support for myriad community focused initiatives are integral to both our unique business model and our vision for a sustainable business.