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A major marketing initiative by Invest Northern Ireland with the Livestock and Meat Commission will help local meat companies keep abreast of global opportunities to grow exports.

Top London store Selfridges has placed an order for organic smoked salmon with Ewing’s Seafoods in Belfast, Northern Ireland’s leading fishmonger. The contract, the first major retail business won by Ewings in Britain, will also benefit Glenarm Organic Salmon in County Antrim, which will supply the fresh fish from its farm in the Irish Sea.

Entries to the Great Taste Awards 2013/14 open on Monday 4th February. The event has proved to be a successful route to additional business particularly in Britain for Northern Ireland food and drink companies over the past five years. Success in the awards offers substantial promotional and PR opportunities.

Belfast-based CocoMojo has developed a new lifestyle drink to meet growing consumer demand for natural energy drinks. The result is an exquisitely different beverage which blends coconut water, coconut milk, tropical fruits, aromatic spices and botanical herbs.

Mac Ivors, the recently launched Northern Irish cider, has won its first business in Britain. The company, based in Armagh in Ireland’s orchard county, is now supplying its two premium bottled ciders – Traditional Dry and Medium – to the Shilling Group, one of the leading pub chains in Scotland.

Abernethy Butter, the Northern Irish artisan producer of natural and hand churned and rolled butter is now on sale at the Queen’s grocer Fortnum and Mason in London.

Fivemiletown Creamery, the award winning Northern Irish cheese processor, has won
the first-ever ‘Outstanding Local Supplier of the Year’ by Tesco Northern Ireland.

Smaller artisan food firms in Northern Ireland are being given business and promotional support by a top Northern Irish hotel chain to grow sales in the region and further afield.

Glenarm Organic Salmon, the Northern Irish salmon producer, has secured its first foodservice business in the United Arab Emirates.

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