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Graham’s Bakery, a Northern Irish bakery, has won its first business with one of the biggest supermarkets in the United Arab Emirates for a new range of mini-bite cakes and biscuits.

Lynn's Country Foods, better known under the Finnebrogue brand and a major supplier of pork and venison products to retailers in Britain and the Republic of Ireland, is the only food company among just five in Northern Ireland listed in the inaugural Investec Bank Mid-Market 100, a countdown of the UK's fastest-growing private companies.

Northern Ireland's award winning Glastry Farm Ice Cream has launched a new Ling Heather Honey flavour. The farm based ice-cream and low fat sorbet maker has teamed up with a leading local beekeeper, Michael Young, to create the new flavour using honey from bees on the heather clad mountains around Limavady in county Derry.

Walled City Brewing, the first craft brewery in Londonderry, Northern Ireland’s historic second city, has launched a new pale ale, Boom, to reflect the city's heritage.

Five Northern Ireland companies have been recognised in the prestigious Food and Drink Manufacturing Excellence Awards, the winners were announced recently.

Genesis Crafty, the Northern Irish baker of traditional and other breads, has developed three branded speciality loaves exclusively for around 200 Waitrose stores.

Gluten-free chocolatier Cobden and Brown has secured its first retail sales outside Northern Ireland.

The artisan enterprise, formed in 2012 by Northern Ireland chocolatier Caroline McArdle and a recent winner of two Great Taste Awards from the UK Guild of Fine Food, has begun supplying its handmade chocolate bars, which are both wheat, gluten and egg-free, to independent retailers in the Republic of Ireland.

Northern Irish butcher O’Kane Meats clinched two prestigious European awards for the quality and creativity of its sausages. Based at Claudy in county Derry, O’Kane Meats, a family run business, came top at the recent Sausage Awards in Alencon, Normandy. The company was among sausage makers, white pudding producers and charcuterie specialists from most parts of Europe taking part in the unique competition.

Dart Mountain Dusk, a wood ash rubbed semi hard from the recently established Dart Mountain Cheese Company in Northern Ireland has won recognition at the World Cheese Awards in London. Dart Mountain Dusk is a pasteurised cows’ milk cheese.

Four foods from two Northern Irish companies have been successful in the finals of the Grocer magazines prestigious New Product Awards 2014.

The listed products were from Mash Direct, a farm-based specialist in convenience meals, and baker Genesis Crafty.