Irish Companies diversifies into beverage business
The Irish Companies is a family-run conglomerate of companies, including Irish Carbonic and Irish Propane, which started 90 years ago as a coal business.
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The Irish Companies is a family-run conglomerate of companies, including Irish Carbonic and Irish Propane, which started 90 years ago as a coal business.
"This isn't new," AeroSafe CEO Jay McHarg said of operation. "What's new is the urgency." The company and its 200 Rochester employees also make smaller, shoulder bag units – manufactured entirely with locally sourced components. It's those containers that have allowed Walgreens and CVS pharmacists to carry vaccine the critical "last mile," to begin vaccinations at nursing homes across the United States. "It's a global effort that's happening here. And the people in Rochester are benefiting from the work people are doing – in Rochester," McHarg said. "We never touch the vaccine," McHarg...