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Enterprise Trade & Investment Minister, Jonathan Bell is pictured at the recent Celebration of Northern Ireland's Food & Drink event in Belfast. Hosted by Invest Northern Ireland, the event recognises the achievement of companies who have achieved significant results in 2015 at the Guild of Fine Foods Great Taste Awards, the Irish Quality Food Awards and the Blas Na h'Eireann, Irish Food Awards. Pictured (l-r) Lara Newton - Irish Quality Food Awards, Enterprise Trade & Investment Minister, Jonathan Bell, Ellie Stuart from Barronscourt Estate, winner of the Great Taste ‘Golden Fork for Northern Ireland’ award and Artie Clifford - Blas Na h?ireann Food Awards.

White’s Oats, Northern Ireland’s producer of porridge, granola and oat snacks, has won a coveted award from the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ireland (CIMI) for excellence as the best-integrated marketing and communications campaign for its new branding.

Abernethy Butter, Northern Ireland’s handmade butter business, has won a contract to its full range of butters to a leading hotels group in Britain.

The award-winning specialist in hand crafted and hand rolled butters is now supplying the Principal Hayley Group (PH Group), which is headquartered in Harrogate in Yorkshire and has properties, including the Palace Hotel in Manchester, throughout Great Britain.

Mike Mullan, Moy Park HR director Europe, has been named UK Director of the Year for Leadership in Corporate Responsibility at the prestigious Institute of Directors UK awards.

Northern Ireland’s Glastry Farm Ice Cream was showcased at an international food summit recently in Dublin. Glastry, based on a family dairy farm at Kircubbin in county Down, was chosen by Good Food Ireland for the prestigious food event held as part of the Web Summit technology event in the Irish capital.

Moy Park, the leading European poultry processor and Northern Ireland’s largest company has been named Food Manufacture Company of the Year 2015.

Hannan Meats, the multi-award winning Northern Ireland butchery business, has won a gold medal in the inaugural World Steak Challenge.

Two Northern Ireland food and drink companies will be marketing products with some of the region’s award winning chefs at Gourmet Gallery, part of the Frankfurt Book Fair, which focuses on cookery publications.

The Good Kitchen range from Northern Ireland poultry processor is now on sale in Budgens in Britain.

Butler’s Pantry, one of the Republic of Ireland’s most respected retailers and meal developers, has listed Abernethy hand churned butter from Northern Ireland.