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Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster yesterday joined around 60 local food and drink companies, mostly artisan businesses, to celebrate award winning innovation.

Hannan Meats, the award winning Northern Irish meat business specialising in foodservice, has won its first business for salt-aged beef in France.

UK Celebrity chef Mark Hix has given Northern Irish beef another massive endorsement for taste and premium quality.

Two Northern Irish seafood processors have joined forces to achieve Halal accreditation that will enable them to win more business throughout the Middle East.

The two companies, Ewing Seafood, Belfast’s oldest fishmonger, and Glenarm Organic Salmon, Northern Ireland’s only fish farming business, are aiming to develop sales of smoked salmon in these buoyant markets.

Seventeen Northern Irish companies secured a record 33 top awards, including an unprecedented seven golds, in Ireland’s most prestigious food and drink competition.

Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster and Finance Minister Simon Hamilton, MLA have announced today that a new Agri-Food Loan Scheme will be open for business in November.

Armagh Cider Company has received two awards at the Irish Quality Food & Drink Awards, at a prestigious ceremony in Dublin.

Whitewater Brewing Company, Northern Ireland’s biggest artisan brewer, is aiming to make a buzz in Britain with a unique honey and ginger ale.

Fivemiletown Creamery, Northern Ireland’s original speciality cheese producer, has been successful at the British Cheese Awards for its unique Boil?e, goat’s cheese barrel.

Mac Ivors Cider, the Northern Irish cider maker, has won a coveted National Trust Fine Farm Produce Award.