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Heavenly Tasty Organics, the Omagh-based manufacturer of organic baby weaning meals, will represent Northern Ireland at this month’s final of The Pitch competition to find the UK’s best small business.

Sainsbury’s has launched a programme in association with Levercliff, the food and drink marketing consultancy to assist 100 Northern Irish companies currently supplying or hoping to supply the retailer’s stores.

Award winning Northern Irish butcher Pat O’Doherty has chronicled the history of corned beef in a novel cookbook about how best to incorporate the meat in contemporary meals. The aim of the book is to “demonstrate the vast potential of this forgotten beef product”.

Ewing’s Seafoods, Belfast’s oldest fishmonger, has won its first business in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), for a new smoked salmon product developed with assistance from Invest Northern Ireland.

Jacquelyn Stewart from Northern Ireland has scooped a prestigious national award for her juice business Squeeze Juice Caf?. She won the Kraft Foods Leading Edge Leading Light Award for her success in transforming her Squeeze Juice Cafe business, based at Warrenpoint, County Down, into an online operation that now exports to the US and Spain.

Elmgrove Foods, the Northern Irish meat processor, is in the running for a top European award for its achievements in export markets. The company, based at Dungannon in County Tyrone, is listed in the import/export category to represent the UK in the prestigious European Business Awards (EBAs).

Cheese lovers in Finland and Spain are now able to enjoy Fivemiletown Creamery’s richly flavoured Oak Smoked Cheddar following a deal between the Tyrone dairy business and Lidl, the top European discount chain.

Bruces Hill Cattle Company in Northern Ireland, buoyed by its success in the recent UK Great Taste Awards, is poised to launch a new range of speciality meat products.

Two Northern Irish seafood companies have teamed up to create a delicious organic smoked salmon that’s now attracting business from top restaurants and high-end retailers around the world.

Premium beef from Northern Irish award winning Hannan Meats was given pride of place by a top chef at the start of the prestigious London Restaurant Week recently.

Celebrity chef Mark Hix also marked the achievement of Hannan Meats in winning the Supreme Champion title in this year’s prestigious UK Great Taste Awards by organising a unique ‘Carnivore’s Feast’ at the Oyster and Chop House in Smithfield, one of his high-end restaurants with a complete menu of beef from Hannan Meats.