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Armagh Bramley apples win European protection
Armagh Bramley apples in Northern Ireland have been awarded EU protected name status, the third local food to gain this recognition in the past year. Other successful Northern Ireland products are Lough Neagh eels and Comber early potatoes.Ministers meet new chair to the Food-Agri Strategy Board
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster (R) and Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill (L) are pictured with Mr Tony O'Neill, who was recently appointed to the position of Chair to the Agri-food Strategy Board.
Innovative food and drink from Northern Ireland to be showcased at Northern Restaurant & Bar Show
New food ideas and established favourites from Northern Ireland for foodservices in Britain will be showcased on the Northern Ireland Naturally stand (416) at the Northern Restaurant and Bar Show in Manchester Central, 12th & 13th March.3663 deal for Fivemiletown Creamery's Boilie cheese
Fivemiletown Creameryâs Boil?e, the unique Irish recipe cheese made from goatâs milk, is being listed by 3663, one of the UKâs top foodservice companies.
Foster praises tasty Titanic offering from Genesis Crafty
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has praised a Magherafelt bakery for its innovative thinking following the launch of a new âTitanic Tastesâ range for 2012.
Farm food business aims to break into GB marketplace
Award winning Cloughbane Farm Foods is aiming to win its first business in Great Britain for its handmade meat and chicken pies, lasagnes and bakes as well as gluten-free steak burgers and beef sausages.Innovative goat's blue cheese is first for Northern Ireland
A new goatâs blue cheese has been developed in Northern Ireland by Leggygowan Farm, the regionâs first and a new addition to an emerging farmhouse cheese sector.
Leggygowan Farm, formed in 2010 as part of a farm diversification project, is now producing a semi-soft blue cheese from milk from a herd of almost 100 goats on the 20-acre holding in the rich pasture of County Down.
Traditional ice-cream favourite reinvented by artisan producer
Luxury ice-cream company Glastry Farm Ice-Cream is breathing new life into a traditional favourite with both adults and children, as part of a range of new products that also includes a very low-fat pear ice-cream sorbet.Innovation brings two dairy companies together to grow business
Kircubbin-based Glastry Farm Ice-Cream is being assisted by Invest Northern Ireland to develop an innovative product that will also bring business benefits to Clandeboye Estate Yoghurt in Bangor.Skills key to success of Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur in Northern Ireland
Sixty five per cent of global market leading Baileys Original Irish Cream Liqueur is now produced in Northern Ireland for customers in over 130 countries. The success of the plant, located at Mallusk in County Antrim, has been attributed to a continuous investment by Diageo in skills and training of employees there.