Elmgrove Foods listed as fast growing exporter

Elmgrove Foods, a specialist in offal, is the only Northern Irish company to feature in the list of the UK's fastest growing exporters produced by the Sunday Times.

Based in Dungannon, county Tyrone Elmgrove exports products such as kidney, liver, trotters and sweetbreads to the Far East, Africa and the Caribbean.

The firm, which is linked to meat processor Dunbia Group, features in Sunday Times BT Business SME Export list Track 100 league table.

The company is placed at 61 in the list of firms with the fastest-growing international sales over the past two years.

The distributor of 'fifth quarter' animal products was set up by 39-year-old Stuart Dobson - the son of Dunbia co-founder Jack Dobson - in 2008.

It has grown international sales by an average of nearly 50 per cent a year for the last two years and has won a string of accolades over the last few years, including the Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2013, while Stuart Dobson was also a finalist in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year last year.

Danny Longbottom, managing director UK SME at BT Business, said: "I would like to congratulate the businesses recognised in the inaugural Export Track 100, who are proving that it's not necessarily size that determines international success.

"These businesses have used a combination of self-starting ambition, smart use of technology, and sheer hard work to punch well above their weight in the global market.

"The fruits of their labour are contributing to a strong and diverse UK economy, which we can all be thankful for."

More than a quarter of firms on the list are in London.