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Liam O’Connor, Sales and Marketing Director, Biopax Limited, Glyn Roberts, Chief Executive, Retail NI, Heather McCracken, Sales Manager, Hinch Distillery, and Peter Aikman, Business Development Manager, Bobby’s Foods Limited.

Retail NI unveils third annual Supplier Showcase event

Sharon Gilmore, Grainne Moody and Michael Bell launching the Northern Ireland Food and Drink Conference.

Retail panel confirmed for Northern Ireland Food and Drink Conference

L-R Sharon Gilmore, FSA, Grainne Moody, Invest NI and Michael Bell, NIFDA

Retail panel confirmed for Northern Ireland Food and Drink Conference

Alan McKeown, Executive Director of Business Growth, Invest NI, Economy Minister Conor Murphy and Pádraig Mallon, Chief Executive Officer, Pure Engineering Group.

Pure Engineering Group invests £4.7m in Newry facility

Economy Minister Conor Murphy met with SpiderRock executives whilst on a Trade Mission to Chicago last year. He is pictured with George Papa, SpiderRock CEO, Annabelle Baldwin, SpiderRock Chief Revenue Officer, Andrea Haughian, Invest NI’s Head of Americas, and Julianne Cox, FDI Business Development Director at Invest NI.

US firm SpiderRock investing over £2m to create 20 jobs

Economy Minister Conor Murphy with James Hurst, Managing Director, Hurst Engineering, and Grainne Moody, Director, Invest NI.

Hurst Engineering secures contracts worth over £2.5m

Michael Bell, Executive Director, NIFDA, Conor Murphy, Economy Minister and John Healy, Invest NI

New capital investment scheme to boost industry growth

Applications to the Sustainable Utilisation of Livestock Slurry competition exceeded expectations

Six local companies have each been awarded funding of £100k

Businessman Vincent Rooney runs a wholesale seafood business

Tarragon Bay fishing for success

Councillor Tim McClelland with members of the delegation

McClelland leads agri stakeholder delegation

Pictured at the Northern Ireland stand at Gulfood 2022, the world's largest food expo, are (l-r) Robin Wall, Export Director, Tayto; Jago Pearson, Chief Strategy Officer, Artisan Finnebrogue; Mel Chittock, Interim CEO, Invest NI; Mark McCaffrey, Commercial Director, Crust & Crumb; Economy Minister Gordon Lyons; Mark Gowdy, Commercial Director, Whites Oats; Peter Meeke, Regional Director, Greenfield International; Stuart Best, Business Development Manager, Whites Oats; and Charlie Miller, Director MENA, Greenfields International.

Lyons in UAE to support NI companies

The Lamb Van hits the road thanks to Loughry

Edible insects show great potential as an environmentally friendly choice for future food systems.

Taking food to a whole new level

Spear & Arrow product

Spear & Arrow points the way

Left to right are John Hood, Director of Food and Tourism at Invest NI, Bryan Boggs, General Manager of Clandeboye Estate Yogurt, Lady Dufferin of Clandeboye Estate, Mark Logan, Estate Manager of Clandeboye Estate and Mark Bleakney, Southern Regional Manager of Invest NI. The Co Down yoghurt manufacturer is to invest more than £2 million in a significant expansion of its business.

Clandeboye Estate is set to invest £2m in new factory

A veal chop

Getting people of all ages to embrace new foods can be a real challenge
Borough Market in London’s East End is one of the oldest in the world and a mecca for food lovers from every corner of the globe. A couple of weeks ago I was cooking there as part of a showcase for Northern Irish produce, organised with Food NI in conjunction with Invest NI.
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Corned beef

Celebrate Ireland’s patron saint with some tasty corned beef and cabbage

Brussels ‘A Taste of Celtic’ dinner was opportunity to showcase local delights

Province’s suckler beef needs better marketing: UFU

Michelle Shirlow

NI named best food destination

Projects bring major investment to industry

Invest Northern Ireland has announced that it has opened a new office in Hong Kong in a drive to increase exports to Hong Kong and the Southern China region. Invest NI Chairman Mark Ennis (right) is pictured in Hong Kong with Andrew Heyn, British Consul General, and Jennifer Liu, Invest NI.

Invest NI to build on export growth

DAERA Minister Michelle McIlveen meet Dunbia Executives at international trade show in Paris. Pictured with Minister McIlveen are (l to r) Jack Dobson, Dunbia Executive Director, Minister McIlveen, Sheila Boylan, Dunbia Export Marketing Executive, Janet Dobson, Dunbia Company Secretary and Jim Dobson, Dunbia Chief Executive.

Dunbia meets ministers at SIAL

William Irwin MLA, DÃ¤vid Simpson MP, Simon Hamilton Minister for the Economy, Carla Lockhart MLA

MLAs discuss creamery future

Antibiotic usage in pigs to be logged in NI

From left to right, pictured at the Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association's Annual Appetite for Growth Conference, Glenn Roberts, Partner at Deloitte; Alan Bridle, UK Economist and Market Analyst, Bank of Ireland UK; Declan Billington, NIFDA Chair; John Hood, Director of Food and Tourism at Invest NI and Tony Brown, Commercial Manager, Sysco Software.

SMEs advised to capitalise on '˜big data'

No move on social clauses
TUV leader Jim Allister has expressed disappointment over the Economy minister's refusal to contemplate imposing social clauses in grants from Invest NI to the milk processing sector, which would require an uplift in the price paid to producers as a condition of the grant.
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MEP congratulates NI firms

First Minister attends opening of Finnebrogue Artisan food processing facility

Invest Northern Irelands chief executive, Alastair Hamilton has announced that Ballyclare based Antrim Hills has won its first export business in the United Arab Emirates. Alastair Hamilton (right) is pictured with Peter Geary, Antrim Hills, and Colm Mcloughlin, Dubai Duty Free.

Antrim Hills takes water to the desert