C&F’s accounts show that group sales jumped almost 40 per cent to €77 million last year from €57 million in 2009.
It made pretax profits of €6.8 million in 2010, a 162 per cent increase on the €2.6 million surplus it reported the previous year.
The Galway-based manufacturer is preparing to begin shipping to Britain in the New Year and intends selling into Germany and Italy in the first quarter. Sometime in the third and fourth quarters of 2012 it intends launching in the United States.