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Jacquelyn Stewart, owner of Northern Irish wheatgrass business Squeeze Juice Cafes, has been named among three finalists for the prestigious Kraft Foods Leading Light Award.

Based at Warrenpoint in County Down, she is listed as a rising star of the food and grocery industry in the awards announced by IGD and will stand a chance of winning the overall award in the finals on 9th October in London.

United Dairy Farmers (UDF), the leading Northern Irish dairy co-operative and owner of the Dale Farm brand, saw profits jump 25 per cent last year largely as a result of an increase in sales of its award winning cheddar cheese portfolio.

Superior Irish pork sausages from Dohertys, the Northern Irish meat processor, have been listed by Asda in Scotland for the first time. The deal for the sausages, supplied in 720g packs of 16 sausages, follows discussions between Asda and Dohertys over the past few months. Doherty’s has been supplying gluten-free sausages to over 300 Asda supermarkets in Britain since 2009.

Kearney Cheese Company, the Northern Irish artisan blue cheese producer, struck gold at the prestigious British Cheese Festival at Cardiff Castle last Friday. The farmhouse cheese producer won a gold medal for its blue cheese at the prestigious event.

Invest Northern Ireland will be showcasing award winning food products at major trade events in London and Dublin over the next two weeks.

Good4U, the leading brand of healthy shoots, sprouts and seeds, has launched Goody2shoots, a new campaign aimed at inspiring more people to explore healthy new ways of eating and living.

Morrisons, the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, is to launch an innovative cheese from Fivemiletown Creamery, Northern Ireland’s leading speciality cheese producer, and signed up for six new own label lines for Christmas.

Broighter Gold in Limavady, which used an Invest Northern Ireland Innovation Voucher to develop a cold-pressed rapeseed oil for cooking, is realising the benefits of innovation as it wins award after award.

Northern Ireland’s Dale Farm and Fivemiletown Creamery were both successful at the recent Global Cheese Awards at the prestigious Froome Agricultural and Cheese Show in Somerset.

Omagh-based, Heavenly Tasty Organics has received a Highly Commended award at the Soil Association Organic Food Awards for its unique range of frozen baby weaning meals. The company, based at Omagh Business Complex, is also celebrating a listing by Dunnes, the leading Irish retainer, for its products.