UK Quality Awards for Finnebrogue Artisan

Finnebrogue Artisan in Northern Ireland has won two UK Quality Awards for its quality bacon and sausages.

The company, which is based at Downpatrick in county Down, won the prestigious awards in the Bacon and Sausage categories for its unique Naked Smoked Streaky Bacon and for its Asda Extra Special Reduced Fat Sausages.

The Quality Food Awards recognise and celebrate the best in retail food products available across the UK. Each category in the annual awards has been specifically tailored to represent the key drivers in today’s ever-changing food and drink marketplace.

Finnebrogue Artisan is part of Lynn’s Country Foods, a business founded by food entrepreneur Denis Lynn in 1985, also the chairman of Finnebrogue Artisan, now among Northern Ireland’s leading food processors and supplier to major retailers such as Marks and Spencer and Waitrose.

The innovation-led business developed the revolutionary Naked Bacon, the world’s first bacon free from nitrites and other chemicals. It subsequently added nitrite free ham to the range. The company was also the first to market ‘flexitarian’ brand of deliciously different foods, Funky Flexitarian, in the UK.

The company is investing in a major £25 million state-of-the-art processing complex that also features the latest robotic technology. As a result, Finnebrogue is now among the most technology advanced food processors in Europe.