Avoca is a family-run business that spans one of the world's oldest surviving manufacturing companies and some of Ireland's most exciting stores and cafés. It started as a handweaving mill in Avoca Village, County Wicklow back in 1723 and has grown to employ over 600 people in 10 locations across the country, from Kerry to Belfast, Connemara to Dublin. Avoca exports fashion, homewares and soft furnishings across the globe and there are Avoca perfumes, glassware and ceramics, even run a world-class garden.