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Northern Irish apple growers Long Meadow Farm has launched two new cold pressed ciders. Medium and sweet ciders are the outcome of a farm diversification project by an Armagh family at the heart of Northern Ireland’s ‘orchard county’. Long Meadow Cider has developed the two-strong range of bottled ciders.

A new European Union funding programme has been approved in the European Parliament, meaning that food items with protected EU status will be available internationally.

Kestrel Foods, the Northern Irish dried fruit and nut producer, has secured a contract to supply its sports nutrition snacks in the United Arab Emirates.

Young Buck, Northern Ireland’s first raw-milk artisanal blue cheese, has won its first business in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. The cheese, launched last month, has been developed by Mikes Fancy Cheese (MFC), a business formed with Crowdfunding support.

Fulcrum, a recently launched craft wheat beer developed in Northern Ireland, has secured its first export business.

Moy Park, the Northern Irish poultry processor, has been named the driving force in the UK industry in a major Economic Impact Study by Oxford Economics.

Northern Ireland’s Meat Merchant has been ranked by the influential Grocer weekly as among the five most innovative UK butchers.

Tayto, the Northern Ireland based manufacture of crisps and other snacks, has been named as a top UK supplier. The company, headquartered at Tandragee in county Armagh, was named winner of the top Own Label Supplier in the Crisps, nuts and snacks category in the Supplier of the Year Awards 2014 run by the influential Grocer magazine.

Poultry processor Moy Park has been named Northern Ireland’s biggest business in a new survey of the Top 100 Companies. Moy Par, which retained this position from last year, recorded profits of almost ?34 million – 39 per cent up on the previous year.

Irish drinks business C&C Group is investing &pound1.2 million in a new Customer Support Centre in Northern Ireland that will also provide 25 new jobs.