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Mourne Seafood Bar, the award winning Northern Irish restaurant business, is to launch a range of own branded foods for retail.

The company, which also owns the popular Belfast Cookery School, has developed hot and cold smoked salmon and three added value pates for retail, initially, through its website.

Cirillo, the Northern Irish luxury chocolatier, has launched a range of gluten free chocolates for people with coeliac disease. In addition to being gluten free, the chocolates are free from wheat and eggs. The company’s dark chocolate is also dairy-free.

Fermanagh-based O’Doherty’s Fine Meats has named as the Northern Ireland regional winner in the annual UK Butcher’s Shop of the Year Awards.

McCartney’s Butchers, the award winning Northern Irish meat business, is investing in new products through the construction of a state-of-the-art development kitchen complex.

The company, headed by George McCartney, is gearing up to grow sales outside Northern Ireland for existing meats, including its Great Taste Award winning traditional corned beef, and new products in the pipeline.

Grace’s Irish Biscuits in Northern Ireland has won its biggest export deal for traditional handcrafted biscuits. The award winning company, based at Bangor in County Down, has won a contract to supply its traditional oatmeal and shortbread biscuits to leading US discount retailer Cost Plus World Market in San Francisco for sale through its nationwide chain of 260 stores.

Marriott UK has listed Fivemiletown Creamery’s unique Boil?e speciality goat’s cheese as an ingredient for meals in its network of hotels throughout Britain.

Boil?e goat’s cheese pearls, available only from Fivemiletown Creamery in Northern Ireland, is being used in five meals, including pasta dishes and salads, on menus across 40 Marriott Hotels in Britain.

Moyallon Guanciale from Hannan Meats in Northern Ireland was named Best New Ingredient in the prestigious Pizza, Pasta and Italian Food Association Awards (PAPAS) 2012, held recently in London.

Glenarm Organic Salmon, Northern Ireland’s only fish farming business, is to supply fresh salmon to top hotels in Hong Kong. The company’s first business in China is the outcome of a series of marketing initiatives in Asia – it already supplies fresh salmon to premium hotels in Singapore and Thailand.

Rooney Fish, the Northern Irish seafood business, is aiming to expand sales in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including Japan and Hong Kong, by investing in new products. The company, as part of its business growth strategy, is exhibiting at the SEAFEX show in the World Trade Centre, Dubai from 19-21 November.

McCartney’s Butchers of Northern Ireland gained three gold awards in the recent All Ireland Butchers’ Awards. The gold award products were steak and kidney pie, handmade corned beef, and traditional pork sausages.