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Northern Ireland food producer and retailer Linwoods has increased pre-tax profits past the ?1.5 million mark. The ?32 million-turnover business is a major exporter of healthy superfoods and is aiming to increase its market share through investment in new products and organic growth.

Belfast is one of just five UK cities to be recognised at this year's Sustainable Food Cities Awards.

Amaury Dehen, managing director of Lagard?re Travel Retail UK and Ireland, has praised the quality and innovation of artisan food and drink producers in Northern Ireland.

Allied Bakeries is investing &pound1 million in new robotic equipment to increase production of pancakes at its Belfast operation.

Milgro, Northern Ireland’s only commercial grower of onions, is among 11 business across the United Kingdom to be shortlisted for the finals of Local Business Accelerators (LBA) – the regional campaign to boost smaller companies.

White’s, Northern Ireland’s oat miller and cereal producer, is celebrating the 175th anniversary of its first harvest.

Based at Tandragee in county Armagh Speedicook began an iconic brand in 1841 and is now among the oldest porridge producers in the British Isles. It has since become among the most successful and innovative food businesses in Northern Ireland with an impressive portfolio of porridge oats and oat based cereal products, many of which have won UK Great Taste Awards.

Thompson’s Family Teas, best known in Northern Ireland, parts of Great Britain, Republic of Ireland and the US for its Punjana brand, is celebrating 120 years in the importation and blending of fine teas. It’s now one of Northern Ireland’s best known and most respected brands.

Buchanan’s, the Great Taste Award winning free-range turkey business in Northern Ireland, has launched a range of innovative meat products including lamb burgers and mutton steaks

Buchanan’s, the Great Taste Award winning free-range turkey business in Northern Ireland, has launched a range of innovative meat products including lamb burgers and mutton steaks.
The new products, which also include a range of pork sausages with original flavours, and bacon have been developed as part of a diversification project by the farm-based business.
Buchanan’s, based near Kilrea in county Derry, won Great Taste Awards from the UK Guild of Fine Food in 2013 and 2014 for its free-range bronze turkeys.

The parent of Tayto Crisps, the Northern Irish producer of snack foods, increased profits substantially last year in the face of the fierce competition in the UK snacks market.