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Award winning Squeeze Wheatgrass, the Northern Irish producer of healthy juice drinks, has launched a new range of flavoured products for the UK and other markets.

Based at Warrenpoint, county Down, the small business, which won one of the first Good Choice! Quality Food Awards in the UK, has been specialising in wheatgrass juice shots since 2011. The fresh juice is produced in 30ml shots.

Ewing’s Seafoods, the leading Northern Irish fishmonger, has won its first significant contract with a major UK supermarket chain. The company is now supplying organic smoked salmon to Sainsbury’s.

Finnebrogue, the Northern Irish pork and venison processor, has been named winner in the agri-food category in the recent prestigious all-Ireland Business Achievers’ Awards.

A successful partnership between supermarket giant Asda in Northern Ireland and McGee’s Butchers is set to be rolled out to more stores across the UK. McGee’s is owned by Karro, the leading UK pork processor.

Cookstown, part of Karro Foods, has launched an innovative convenience bacon product in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Keen Nutrition, the Northern Irish specialist in nut butters, has won its first export business in Germany.

Just Live a Little, the artisan producer of a range of award winning breakfast cereals, has won major export business in Hong Kong and Germany for its handcrafted granolas.

Northern Ireland’s Tempted Cider Co Ltd has won its first significant business in Britain for its range of award winning Tempted? Irish Craft Cider branded products.

Leading Northern Irish meat processor Dunbia saw profits rise by more than
40 % last year on turnover of &pound826 million.

Lakeland Dairies, which owns Pritchitt Foods and has a joint venture with Fane Valley Co-Operative, both in Northern Ireland, anticipates a gradual improvement in dairy market conditions in 2016 once global stocks begin to clear, according to chief executive Michael Hanley.