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Northern Ireland’s Ditty’s Smoked Oatcakes are included with Suki Tea’s Belfast Brew in a new Marks & Spencer range of products to celebrate British and Irish cuisine that has been neglected or forgotten.

Profits are up and turnover has edged towards the &pound200 million mark at the county Armagh-based Tayto Group, manufacturer of the iconic Northern Irish potato crisp brand.

A unique Pork Saltimbocca developed by Linden Foods in Northern Ireland for Marks and Spencer has been hailed as a taste winner. The pork dish, the most recent in a series of innovative products for M&S, picked up the top award for Best Product in the prestigious Northern Ireland Food and Drink Awards.

Moy Park is following the roast-in-the-bag trend with two new flavours of whole chicken roasts.

The Belfast Distillery Company (BDC) is to launch McConnell’s blended Irish whiskey for sale in international markets including the US, France, Norway and Sweden, the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Shoppers at M&S stores in the UK and Ireland are set to experience the richly flavoured Belfast Brew tea from Suki Tea, Northern Ireland's multi-award winning boutique tea blender.

Gaining access for Northern Ireland to global beef markets particularly the US and China for a range of products must be regarded as an economic and political priority, according to Trevor Lockhart, chief executive of Fane Valley Group, which includes Linden Foods, one of the region’s major beef and lamb processors.

Old Bushmills, Ireland’s oldest Irish Whiskey, gained two major awards in the influential World Whiskies Awards 2015.

Dunville VR, the historic Irish whiskey recently rejuvenated by Echlinville Distillery in Northern Ireland, has been chosen as the Best Irish Single Malt 12 years and Under 2015.

Dunbia, one of the UK and Ireland's leading beef and lamb processors is investing &pound27 million at its headquarters at Dungannon in Northern Ireland and creating 209 new jobs over the next three years.