Brown Thomas in Dublin lists Broighter Liquid Gold

Broighter Gold, the leading Northern Irish cold pressed rapeseed oil producer, has been listed by Brown Thomas, the upmarket Dublin department store.

Based in Limavady, county Derry, Broighter Gold has started supplying its full range of four rapeseed oils and has taken parted in sampling sessions in the store's stylish food hall in Dublin.

Leona Kane, Broighter Gold's managing director, says: "We're really excited at now being on sale in this landmark store at the heart of Dublin's premier shopping district. It's a very significant boost for our marketing activities in the Republic which are now gathering momentum.

"We are now the market leader in rapeseed oil in Northern Ireland, and this endorsement by Brown Thomas in the company's flagship store will be immensely important as we seek to replicate our success in the north in the Republic, now our most important market outside Northern Ireland.

"Sampling sessions in a store that is recognised as Ireland's most beautiful lifestyle store, loved as much at home as it is by international visitors have been extremely encouraging. Shoppers are increasingly seeing the health benefits of natural rapeseed oils in cooking, baking and for salad dressings.

"Our oils, which now include lemon and chilli flavours, are being used increasingly by leading chefs, including Dublin's Clodagh McKenna, as an alternative to olive oil because of the high content of Omega 3,6,9 and Vitamin E and also because rapeseed is probably the most versatile cooking oil. Broighter Gold oil also has half the saturated fat of olive oil," Mrs Kane adds.

Formed in 2011 as a farm diversification project by husband and wife team Richard and Leona Kane, Broighter Gold has gained the top quality awards including UK Great Taste Awards.

Broighter Gold, known as LiquidGold, is an artisan business based at Broglasco, the Kane family farm, in Myroe, near Limavady, on the edge of Lough Foyle just above sea level on reclaimed land. The arable farm covers 360 acres - 120 are used to grow rapeseed.

The fertile ground grows high yielding crops of wheat, barley, oilseed and potatoes. Ireland's greatest find of gold artefacts from the Iron Age of the 1st century BC was found on the farm and is now held by the national Museum of Ireland.

In addition to the development of rapeseed oil, the company has expanded into industrial tourism by developing an exhibition centre through the international EconoMusee network that enables visitors to see how the oil is produced and used in cooking.