Cully & Sully

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Cully & Sully
Cully & Sully soup.jpg
Owner Hain Celestial Group
Introduced2004
Previous ownersCullen Allen
Colum O'Sullivan
Website Official website
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Cully & Sully is a brand of ready to eat soups, pies, and risottos. [2]

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History

Cully & Sully was founded by Cullen Allen and Colum O'Sullivan. [3] The company began with a line of pies which it launched in 2004 and then five different soups which it launched in 2006. [4] In 2012, Cully & Sully was purchased by Hain Celestial Group with both Allen and O'Sullivan staying on to run the brand. [5] It also moved some of its manufacturing to the UK after the purchase. [6]

The company expanded into the United Kingdom in 2017, releasing six of its soups in Britain through Tesco [3] and in 2020 it received B Corporation status, one of only three companies in Ireland to do so. [7]

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