Foodcloud

Based in Ireland, FoodCloud connects businesses with charities so that surplus food is directed towards feeding the needy instead of going to waste. Businesses either deliver food to FoodCloud Hubs or FoodCloud collects the food using their refrigerated vans. After collecting the surpluses, the food is counted, uploaded to an IT system, and stored. While in storage, a food safety system ensures the food is safe and hands it off to a charity by the next day. 

The FoodCloud retail solution has stores upload descriptions of surplus foods using a scanner or app with a local charity linked to the store via FoodCloud’s platform receiving a notification about what is available to them. In 2016, a charity app was introduced by FoodCloud for UK charities to accept donations easily.

As of October 2024, FoodCloud was operating in Ireland, the UK, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Australia with ~5,700 food-donating branches and 7,118 active monthly users. The company had redistributed 123,760 tons of food, equivalent to 294.7 million meals, since 2013 and saved 382,000 kg tons of CO2-equivalent emissions.

Key customers and partnerships

FoodCloud began working with FareShare, the UK’s largest charity fighting hunger and food waste, in June 2015 to distribute surplus food to those in need. The company partnered with Tesco Central Europe and Poland in 2013 to enhance technology across all its stores in Slovakia and Hungary. FoodCloud also partnered with OzHarvest in December 2018, an organization tackling food waste in Australia.  

In February 2023, FoodCloud and Danone Ireland, a French multinational food company reached a three-year agreement to deliver a nutrition education program through FoodCloud's community assistance program. In September 2023, FoodCloud and ABP Food Group commenced a three-year partnership to redistribute over 140 tons of surplus food to FoodCloud’s community and partners. 

In June 2024, the company extended its partnership with Allied Irish Banks for another three years to launch meal programs aiming to save an additional 100 tons of surplus food.