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Award winning corned beef from McCartney’s in Northern Ireland has been launched in Britain by Selfridges in central London.

The unique corned beef from the Northern Ireland butchery business, voted Supreme Champion in the recent final of the UK Guild of Fine Food’s Great Taste Awards, is now on sale in the store’s renowned Food Hall in Oxford Street.

Northern Ireland’s Robert Ditty has won the prestigious UK Baker of the Year title in the 2011 Baking Industry Awards.
The panel of judges described Ditty, who owns two home bakeries in Castledawson and Magherafelt, both based in County Londonderry, as a “beacon in the industry” and a real example of a hands-on baker, whose strong personality is indelibly stamped on his business.

Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh eels have become the region’s first food to win EU protected legal status against imitators.

The EU decision puts the eels, from the largest wild eel fishery in Europe, on a par with French champagne, Melton Mowbray pork pies, Cornish pasties, Parma ham, Gorgonzola and Camembert de Normandie.

Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has congratulated McCartney’s butchery business in Moira on being named the UK Supreme Food Champion at a gala banquet in London last night.

The family butchers was named as Supreme Champion for its handmade Corned Beef in the final stage of the Great Taste Awards for 2011. It is the first time the Supreme Champion food award has been won by a Northern Ireland company.

Sales of Fivemiletown Creamery's award winning soft cheeses increased five fold last year, making it the Northern Ireland company's best ever year.

Northern Ireland based Pure Roast Coffee has won a ?350,000 contract to supply almost two million coffee pods to Dubai-based Emirates Airline for its global network of business lounges.

Three new Irish craft ciders are to be launched at the upcoming All-Ireland Craft Beerfest by Northern Ireland’s dj’s juice and cider.

The company, which recently clinched a deal with DJ Wetherspoon, the UK pub chain, for its handcrafted ciders, will be marketing its products for the first time in the Republic of Ireland.

Little Big Shot, the unique healthy energy drink from Northern Ireland has won its first business in the huge US energy drink marketplace.

The healthy energy drink that is made from real fruit juice is now on sale in stores in two key states, Pennyslvania and Texas, through deals with distributors in Philadelphia and Austin.

Celebrating further expansion into UK supermarkets, Northern Ireland’s favourite craft baker Genesis Crafty, bakers of artisan craft breads, has commissioned branding specialist Brandhouse and new media agency Matmi to develop a promotional game. The free-to-play social game, “Knead for Speed”, helps to tell the Genesis Crafty story through social game play, and features the company’s six founding brothers in a stick men bake-off of epic proportions!

Organic Farmer, John McCormick and Entrepreneur, Ben Craig have launched a new Northern Irish Organic Brand, Root and Branch Organic, a new initiative that aims to grow the green economy, build community and create a sustainable path towards education and wellbeing.