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Meat Connected, the private cloud-based business networking system for the global meat industry, has created a unique industry statistics section.

The section, the first of its kind for the industry, brings together a wide variety of data from a range of sources to make it easier than ever before to find relevant statistics and quickly analyse them.

Calerrific, the Northern Irish producer of a new nutritional biscuit, has won distribution deals in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland.

An innovation from Fivemiletown Creamery for The Fine Cheese Co. in Bath has been voted Outstanding New Product at the New York Fancy Food Show.

Blackthorn Foods, the Belfast-based manufacturer of gourmet fudges and fondues, has been chosen by Partridges of Sloane Square, Grocer to HM the Queen and London’s leading specialist food and drink retailer, to be part of its presentation at this month’s Coronation Festival in Buckingham Palace gardens.

Northern Irish roaster Pure Roast Coffee supplied its coffee pods to the recent G8 Summit of world leaders at Lough Erne Resort in Fermanagh.

Northern Ireland’s Pure Roast Coffee is expanding production of coffee pods to meet substantial new business in Great Britain.

The company, which has won new business this year from a major international restaurant chain for 2m Easy-Serve-Espresso pods (ESE), is increasing productivity and efficiency particularly in its coffee grinding operation.

Hastings Hotels, the leading Northern Irish hotel group, has taken its commitment to locally-sourced food to another level.....by growing some of the ingredients for its restaurants and cocktail bars.

Armagh Cider Company, the first Northern Ireland producer of commercial cider, has recently won awards at three prestigious ceremonies, two international and one national – The International Cider Challenge, The Great Lakes Cider & Perry Competition and the Royal Bath and West Society Show.

Mac Ivors, the award winning Northern Irish artisan cider, has won its first business in continental Europe. The company, based in Armagh, Northern Ireland’s orchard county, is now supplying its ciders to Finland and Germany.

Almost 60 of the top leaders in the global dairy industry are holding their annual conference in Belfast for the first time.

Attending the three-day Global Dairy Platform- International Milk Promotions Conference, hosted by the Dairy Council for Northern Ireland, 23-25 June, are senior executives and researchers from four of the world’s biggest dairy companies including Fonterra, New Zealand, the world’s biggest dairy business, as well as Arla Foods, Denmark and Friesland Campina of the Netherlands. The organisation’s headquarters are in Rosemont, near Chicago.