Latest news

Hider Foods is now marketing an award winning brown soda bread product from Our Daily Bread based in Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Traditional Irish breads developed by leading UK celebrity chef Paul Rankin are now on sale in LuLu supermarkets in Abu Dhabi. The Rankin Selection breads, which are also popular in major UK retailers, are on the shelves in LuLu stores within 24 hours of being baked by Irwin’s Bakery in Northern Ireland.

Shortcross Gin, recently launched by Rademon Craft Distillery in Northern Ireland, gained gold and silver awards in the latest prestigious Spirits Masters Awards.

The company, which launched its first gin in March, gained gold in the super premium and silver in the micro distillery categories in the awards.

Dart Mountain Cheese Company in Northern Ireland has launched a new blue cheese. Known as Sperrin Blue, the cheese is the first to be developed by Dart Mountain, named after a nearby peak in the Sperrin range of mountains in the north west of Northern Ireland.

Linden Foods, the Northern Irish meat processor, has seen sales pass the ?300 million mark as a result a rise in the price and volume of its products.

Dale Farm, Northern Ireland’s largest dairy processor, has reported increased profits and record sales including exports to markets such as China and Russia.

Northern Ireland’s Kilkeel Seafoods will benefit from a decision by parent Whitby Seafoods in North Yorkshire to bring back scampi processing operations from Vietnam to the UK.

Northern Ireland’s blue cheese, Young Buck, developed by Mike’s Fancy Cheese (MFC), has won business from the influential Neal’s Yard Dairy in London and could soon be supplying one of the capital’s most influential stores.

Poultry processor Moy Park is setting up a new product development centre as part of a &pound170 million expansion at its plants in Northern Ireland.