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Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has urged winners of Great Taste Awards to seize the opportunities developing in Britain and abroad for quality food and drink.

The Minister was speaking at a special ‘Celebration of Success’ organised by Invest Northern Ireland in the Europa Hotel, Belfast, for winners of Great Taste and Irish Food Awards.

Two Northern Irish companies - McErlain's Bakery and McColgan's - have been listed in the Top 50 Fast Growth companies produced from The Grocer magazine in the United Kingdom, the food and drink industry's leading publication.

A restaurant specialising in Northern Irish beef has been named ‘Best New Meat Restaurant’ in the prestigious Eating and Drinking Awards 2012 which are organised annually by London’s Time Out magazine.

Granny Braid’s Fudge, the Northern Irish retro-confectionery business, is celebrating its recent success in the UK Great Taste Awards with a sweet deal in the Republic of Ireland.

Co. Armagh based Datos Professional Solutions; developers of 'Season' software for the food industry have secured 4 new contracts during the month of October.

Meat processor Triple Eight Proteins is expanding in Northern Ireland with the aim of growing exports of pork and poultry products.

Kilhorne Bay Seafoods, the Northern Irish scampi and prawn processor, has won business in France for Queenie Scallops, a recently launched product.

The company has invested over ?450,000 in state-of-the-art production equipment to add Queen Scallops (Queenies) to its existing and successful prawn and scampi products.

Choc-o-Bloc, the Northern Irish company that has pioneered the development of edible chocolate toys, has won its first business in Russia.

The company, based at Newtownards in County Down, has created Magic Choc, an innovative toy that enables children to shape 100 per cent Belgian chocolate into models and then eat them when they grow tired of playing with the toys.

Spirited Drinks, the Northern Irish producer of original berry liqueurs, has won its first business in Australia for its award winning Boozeberries brand from an initial contact on google, the internet search engine, and then through facebook.

Linwoods, the Northern Irish dairy and food business, has launched Europe’s first probiotic and vitamin-enriched fresh milk.

Linwoods Super Healthy Milk has been developed by the company, which is based in Armagh and is also known in Europe and the US for its range of seeds, nuts and berries under the Linwoods Superfoods brand.