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The Northern Ireland Agri Food Sector
The Agri-Food sector in Northern Ireland is one of the
most important contributors to the Northern Ireland
economy in terms of revenue and employment and is
Northern Ireland’s largest manufacturing industry. In
2009 the industry was worth £3.2billion and exports grew
by an impressive 27% to £876million (2008).
Nearly two thirds of food and drink from Northern
Ireland is now bought by retailers and food service
organisations in other parts of the UK and increasingly
further afield.
Buyers in virtually all the leading grocery retailers,
including Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Waitrose and Morrisons,
now look regularly to Northern Ireland for a broad range
of fresh, frozen, chilled and processed products, from
fresh meat, dairy and bakery to ready meals, convenience
foods. Niche products are also to be found in the food
halls at Harrods, Fortnum and Mason, Liberty and Harvey
Nichols.
Northern Ireland’s reputation as a source of quality
foods is also spreading worldwide. Wal-Mart, Safeway,
Carrefour, Auchan, SuperCor, Spinneys, Mercadona are
among a growing list of international retailers shopping
regularly in the region. Dutch supermarket chain Albert
Heijn is a longstanding customer particularly for beef
and lamb from Northern Ireland farms.
The region can point justifiably to a great many success
stories – red meat being bought by Europe’s top
retailers; cheese and tea going to the US; porridge oats
to the Arabian Gulf and Hong Kong; dried fruit and nut
snacks to Singapore, Dubai, the Netherlands and
Switzerland; pork sausages, health foods and toasted
oats to Spain; milk powder to China, Africa and Central
America; coffee to the US, Saudi Arabia and North
Africa; potato crisps to Australia; and dry cured bacon
to Belgium.
About Invest NI (Northern Ireland Naturally)
Invest Northern Ireland, the region’s main economic
development agency, has a dedicated Food Division which
delivers fully integrated and responsive services to
over 300 local food and drink companies including advice
on account management, design, product development,
packaging, supply chain and productivity.
Practical support schemes range from assistance to
export through trade missions and exhibitions and ‘meet
the buyer’ events with key buyers in both food retailing
and food services to business development programmes
including help to companies in achieving essential
quality accreditations demanded by major retailers.
Among the most successful initiatives is the Food Sector
Marketing Advisers scheme that is helping Northern
Ireland companies increase business in GB and
international markets.
Four Food Sector Marketing Advisers utilise market
knowledge and their network of contacts to assist local
companies pinpoint and secure new orders by brokering
face-to-face interviews between the companies and food
retailers including multiple chains and organisations
supplying restaurants, hotels, cafes and canteens. They
also
co-ordinate Invest NI’s programme of ‘meet the buyer’
events. These events have brought key buyers from Great
Britain, the Republic of Ireland, other parts of Europe,
the US and India to Northern Ireland for one-to-one
meetings with local food companies.
www.buynifood.com – Invest NI’s dedicated food and drink
web site features over 200 Northern Ireland food and
drink companies across a range of sectors including
Baked Goods, Confectionery, Dairy, Dried Goods, Drink,
Fish, Food Service Providers, Fresh Produce, Meat and
Non Food.
Invest NI’s Food and Drink Sector Tendering Programme
and alert service has been designed to encourage and
assist local food and drink companies to compete more
effectively for substantial public sector contracts in
the RoI. As well as business in the Republic and Great
Britain, the marketing initiative is now yielding orders
from the US.
Invest NI’s Food Sector Marketing Advisers for the UK
and Republic of Ireland markets include: Robin Barnett
T: 078 1717 3513,
robin.barnett@invetni.com;
Michelle Charrington T: 078 1717 3514,
michelle.charrington@investni.com;
Karl Devlin (Scotland / North England) Mob: 07767
393316, karl.devlin@investni.com;
Shane McArdle in the Republic of Ireland, Mob: 07817
173516,
shane.mcardle@investni.com
Alcoholic Beverages & Beer
Armagh Cider Company: The Troughton family in County
Armagh have been growing apples for four generations.
The company’s cider range includes: 'Carsons Crisp'
Armagh Cider and 'Maddens Mellow' Armagh Cider both
available in 500ml glass bottles in cases of 12. 'Mollys
Mulled Cider': available in 750ml glass in cases of 12
and can also be supplied in Bulk containers for
catering.
Hilden Brewery, Ireland’s oldest independent brewery, is
a family run microbrewery established in 1981 by Seamus
and Ann Scullion and located in Lisburn in County
Antrim. The brewery is managed by Seamus and Ann’s son
Owen who is a qualified and full time brewer. The
brewery produces five ales covering the full spectrum of
tastes including Headless Dog Ale, Molly’s Chocolate
Stout and Belfast Blonde Lager.
Strangford Lough Brewing Co Ltd
Strangford Lough Brewing Company (SLBC) produces a range
of fine real ales all named after historical characters
associated with Northern Ireland. St. Patrick has 3
beers named after him, St. Patrick's Ale, St. Patrick's
Gold and St. Patrick's Best. Magnus Barelegs, a Viking
king, is buried on Downpatrick marshes and has two beers
named after him, Barelegs Brew and Legbiter, the name of
his sword. Products are sold in Ireland, Norway, the US
and increasingly in Great Britain.
Established in 1996 the Whitewater Brewing Company
supplies bottled beers to Sainsbury’s, ASDA, the Co-op,
Musgrave, Tesco & independents. Beers are available
throughout Northern Ireland on draught and the company
invested in a state-of-the-art bottling facility in
2006. Currently four products are available in 500ml
bottles –: Belfast Ale 4.5% ABV; Clotworthy Dobbin 5.0%
ABV, Belfast Lager 4.5% ABV and Belfast Black 4.5% ABV.
Bacon, Ham & Pork; Beef & Veal; Lamb (Red Meat & Poultry
Sector)
ABP Ltd
Currently one of the largest beef companies in Europe
and from its production sites in Newry and Lurgan, ABP
supplies the UK’s thriving retail market delivering
frozen and fresh beef and lamb products to retail
multiples and wholesalers in the form of primal cuts or
consumer ready packs. ABP’s comprehensive range
includes: mince, diced, sliced, steaks, roasts and
joints.
ABP’s Foodservice Division delivers high quality beef
and lamb products tailored to customer requirements in
the catering sector across Europe.
C&J Meats
Established in 2001, C&J Meats based at Kilmore in
County Armagh produce retail ready joints, diced
products and quality vacuum packed beef primals from its
EC approved red meat processing facility. All carcasses
are hand selected from top U/R Grade steers and heifers,
with a Fat Class 3/4 , and within the weight range
300kgs to 420kgs. Customers include retailers,
wholesalers, caterers and manufacturers within the UK
and mainland Europe.
Crossgar Foodservice / Crossgar Poultry
As one of Ireland's foremost foodservice companies
Crossgar Foodservice supplies an extensive range of
poultry, meat, chilled, frozen, grocery and non-food
products to some of the leading government bodies,
contract caterers, hotel groups and restaurants in
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
A state-of-the-art, purpose built, meat factory in
Downpatrick and a new distribution centre in Seaforde,
ensures that Crossgar Foodservice can provide a genuine
one-stop-shop for its customers. The Provenance
Collection currently includes two Great Taste Award
winners - Dexter Beef and Lissara Farm Free Range Duck.
Doherty & Gray Ltd
Established in 1954, Ballymena based Doherty & Gray
operates from a modern EC approved plant and specialises
in the supply of chilled beef & lamb and branded and
“own label” sausages and burgers to supermarkets,
catering companies and the independent retail butcher.
The company exports its range to the UK, Ireland and
Continental Europe. A range of exceptional quality
products are marketed under the brand names of “Hulls”,
“Prima Valley” and “Saints & Scholars” mainly to stores
in Great Britain and the Irish Republic and boxed beef
under the Doherty and Gray “Gold Star” brands.
Dunbia operates across ten sites in the UK and Ireland
and from sales offices throughout Europe. Dunbia serves
every market sector including the UK’s largest multiple
retailers and food manufactures, and exports a wide
range of Beef, Lamb & Pork products to a vast customer
base in over fifteen countries.
Elliott’s Tradition Ltd
Founded in 1990 Elliott’s Tradition Ltd manufacture
burgers and sausages and distribute many other products
including an extensive portfolio of poultry products
from fresh, frozen, cooked and value added. Brand names
include Elliott’s Burgers, Elliott’s Sausages, Elliott’s
Goujons, Elliott’s Breaded Fillets etc.
Europa Foods Distribution Ltd
Established in 1996, Europa Foods offer a wide range of
products including fresh pork sausages, chicken, beef,
fish and turkey in both vacuum and controlled atmosphere
packaging to the both catering and retail sectors.
Europa Foods are Northern Ireland agent’s for the famous
Clonakilty Black and White pudding. Europa Foods also
exports bacon to Turkey and the West Indies.
Eurostock Foods NI Ltd
Eurostock Food Group Ltd is a leading supplier of frozen
meat products to the retail, wholesale and foodservice
sectors. The company was founded in 1985 and comprises
of two manufacturing sites – Eurostock Foods Newry in
Northern Ireland, and Eurostock Foods Hindley in
Lancashire, England. Eurostock supplies many leading UK
multiples and foodservice clients.
Finnebrogue
Founded and owned by Denis Lynn, Finnebrogue supplies
the finest quality home-reared venison products for
retail and high end restaurants across the UK, Ireland
and Europe. The company also supplies top quality pork
products, including a range of Rankin Selection Sausages
to Waitrose & Tesco NI.
The company also supplies all the premium own-label
sausages to Marks & Spencer in UK and Ireland. Recent
innovation has seen Finnebrogue launch of a number new
stuffing products into Marks & Spencer stores.
Finnebrogue also manufacture Jimmy’s Classic Free Range
Pork Sausage in a collaboration with Jimmy Doherty,
Jimmy’s Free Range Pork Sausages are available in Tesco
stores throughout the UK & NI. In addition, Finnebrogue
can supply catering or bulk packed 3rd party sausages.
Finnebrogue’s ethical family food brand The Good Little
Company supplies Good Little Sausages and Great Big
Sausages to Waitrose, Tesco NI and selected Spar stores
in NI.
Flynn’s Fine Foods
Fermanagh-based Flynn’s Fine Foods has been supplying
both the retail and catering sectors throughout Ireland
for over 30 years and currently supplies a range of
premium retail packs of sliced cooked meats; retail
packs of sliced bacon and breakfast products; retail
packs of fresh meats and a range of retail frozen foods
products to the main retailers and symbol groups
throughout, Northern Ireland and the Republic of
Ireland. Flynn’s range can also be found in ASDA stores
in the UK and also as far afield as Dubai.
Foyle Food Group is one of the largest beef processing
companies in Ireland and supplies a range of vacuum
packed beef primal cuts and vls; a full range of
Aberdeen Angus and Certified Hereford products; carcase
beef; beef offals & a full range of 5th quarter
products. Comprising Foyle Meats, Omagh Meats, Donegal
Meat Processors, Foyle Proteins and Hilton Meats
Cookstown, the Group has developed a solid reputation
for the production of high quality fresh beef products.
The company supplies Tesco in the UK and Ireland, Coop
in Scandinavia, Albert Heijn in the Netherlands and ICA
Supermarkets in Sweden.
Freeza Meats
Freeza Meats specializes in the manufacture of frozen
burgers for a large number of major food distributors &
retailers throughout the UK. Freeza Meats predominantly
use forequarter flank and steak cuts to give the best
taste and texture. More lean cuts are used in Freeza
Meats’ Aberdeen Angus, restaurant quality and low fat
products.
The extensive range includes over 30 beef, pork and lamb
recipes. Freeza Meats has invested £3m over recent years
in its modern EU approved factory.
Hewitt Meats
Established over 30 years ago, Hewitt Meats is a
privately owned company based in County Armagh and
produces a range of beef products including quality
primal cuts; P.A.D Meat, diced/sliced beef; minced beef
and a full range of retail packed meats (gas flushed).
Clients include major and independent supermarkets both
in the UK and Europe, top quality catering butchers,
manufacturers and Q Guild retail butchers.
Hilton Meats
Established in 1985, Hilton Meat Products Ltd is the
UK’s only dedicated offal factory. Operating from a
modern EC- approved plant in County Antrim, the company
produces liver, hearts and kidneys from beef, pork and
lamb to strict hygiene and quality standards. Fresh
offal’s are purchased daily from EC-approved plants,
ensuring top quality and continuity of supply.
Hilton Meat Products supplies the major UK supermarket
multiples including: Tesco GB, Tesco Ireland, Asda,
Sainsburys, Somerfield, Co-Op and Dunnes Stores.
Kettyle Irish Foods
Kettyle Irish Foods supply mature aged beef and lamb
cuts, Fermanagh Chicken, Banquet Royale Rose Veal,
Silverhill Duck and Fermanagh Bacon to foodservice
customers throughout Northern Ireland, the Republic of
Ireland and the UK.
Kettyle Irish Foods Banquet Royale Rose Veal Stock is a
traditionally-made veal stock in 5kg pouches and is
available fresh or frozen.
Linden Foods
Linden Foods has developed into a market leader within
the Northern Ireland fresh meat processing industry,
sourcing and processing top quality beef and lamb. Part
of the Linden Food Group it currently services a wide
range of retail multiples, convenience food
manufacturers, the catering and foodservice sectors, and
the wider meat packing industry in UK and Europe.
Linden Foods portfolio of products ranges from full
primals and retail packs to individual fixed weight
portions of steak cuts. From Aberdeen Angus and Extra
Matured Beef to Gourmet Style Burgers and Banquet Royale
Rose Veal.
McWhinney’s Sausages
McWhinney‘s manufacture traditional Irish pork sausages
for foodservice and retail markets. McWhinney's Premium
range has 70% quality meat content and is the highest
meat content of any sausage manufactured for the Fish &
Chip Shop market. The company’s new Vintage Sausage is
packed with 80% pure pork meat and is ideal for the
higher-end food sector. All of McWhinney's sausages will
cook from frozen in deep fry and will not burst or bend
during cooking, or shrivel in the holding cabinet.
In the past decade McWhinney’s has expanded into
mainland Europe, North America and the UK, where it now
has established a network of 45 distributors.
Part of the Marfrig Group, Moy Park offers a range of
primary, further processed and ready to cook chicken
products to retail and foodservice customers across
Europe.
VION Food Group Cookstown
The Cookstown business was founded in 1937 and became
part of VION Food Group in late 2008. The “Cookstown
Sizzle” has been the brands best known strap line since
1968. The company's current VIP - (Very Important Pork)
multi media campaign has increased market share across
all categories. Cookstown is available in all good
retailers throughout Northern Ireland and the Republic
of Ireland.
Recently Cookstown has brought focus to the Foodservice
and Manufacturing sectors by establishing a Foodservice
Sales Team to service the Island of Ireland.
Western Brand Poultry Products NI Ltd
Located in Lisnaskea in County Fermanagh, Western Brand
Poultry Products NI Ltd
already has an established and growing customer base for
branded and own-label products amongst the UK’s
mid-sized independent and symbol supermarkets, such as
Nisa, Booth’s, SPAR and Netto.
Western Brand also supplies a six-strong range of frozen
chicken products made from either whole breast fillets,
whole breast muscle or minced breast meat, delivering a
moist and tender taste and texture.
Breads & Morning Goods, Cakes & Biscuits
Allied Bakeries Ireland (ABI) wide product portfolio
encompasses rolls, pancakes, bread, soda farls, potato
farls, muffins and wheaten bread. ABI exports these
products to a wide variety of locations in both Great
Britain and the Republic of Ireland market places.
Allied Bakeries Ireland has thrived, in recent years,
thanks to solid partnerships with key retail outlets and
key brands such as Kingsmill, Sunblest, Allinson, and
Burgen.
Ditty’s Castledawson Ltd
Robert Ditty is a second generation artisan baker who is
committed to using local ingredients and local artisan
producers such as traditional smoke houses, organic
dairies and local farmers to offer a broad range of
specialty biscuits, pastries, breads and savoury foods.
Ditty's have a thriving wholesale business that operates
on a local, national and international level, supplying
numerous leading retailers - including Waitrose, Fortnum
and Mason, Paxton & Whitfield in the UK and hamper
companies. The company also exports to mainland Europe
and New Zealand.
Evron Foods is an independent privately owned company
focused on the manufacture and marketing of quality
frozen and chilled bakery products for the retail,
foodservice, wholesale and food-processing /
sandwich-manufacturing market sectors.
Evron was the first to introduce the ever-popular garlic
bread to Northern Ireland back in 1984 and since then
Evron has developed an impressive range of successful
products for different segments of the marketplace
including frozen dough pieces, garlic breads, ciabattas,
artisan breads and part baked French breads, “tear and
share” breads, flatbreads, plus a range of delicious
Italian style breads. As well as producing a wide range
of private label brands, it can offer its own EASIBAKE
brand.
Established in 1912, Irwin’s Bakery, Northern Ireland’s
largest independent bakery makes a wide range of
products including batch breads, soda breads, rolls,
muffins, cakes and biscuits. Irwin’s breads currently
account for around 85% of all Irish breads sold in Great
Britain, spearheaded by the multi-award winning Rankin
Selection Irish breads range, which it makes in
conjunction with celebrity Irish chef, Paul Rankin.
‘Nutty Krust’ is Irwin’s most successful product to date
– its distinct flavor and texture are the result of a 40
year old recipe using traditional baking and
fermentation methods.
In 2006, Irwin’s acquired traditional-style cake and
tray-bake specialist, ‘Howell House’ to introduce a
specialist home bakery category. Irwin’s invested
significantly in the division in order to enhance its
artisan capabilities and identity, including a strategic
rebrand to ‘Howell’s Handmade’.
Established formed in 1968 McErlain’s Bakery Ltd in
Magherafelt is a regional family run, independent craft
bakery owned and managed by 6 brothers, who all have a
passion for baking. In 1999, McErlain’s re-branded to
become Genesis and have since created the Genesis Crafty
range of breads focused around health and indulgence. It
is now Northern Ireland’s leading niche bakery, priding
itself on quality handcrafted bakery products with a
contemporary image and authentic artisan nature.
Designed to complement Marks & Spencers’ hugely
successful Irish breads and morning goods, the new Irish
Bakery products created for the retailer by Genesis
includes: four-packs of Iced Tops (iced Madeira buns),
Jammy Rounds (Madeira buns dipped in raspberry syrup and
coated in coconut) and Jam Bakes (pastry cases filled
with jam and topped with Madeira sponge). Genesis is
also supplying Apple and Rhubarb pies, part baked and
frozen, for bake-off in M&S’s in-store bakeries.
Genesis also supply Sainsbury’s UK with four of its own
lines, including Genesis Crafty Big Pancakes and Genesis
Crafty Double Butter & Sultana Scones. The same two
lines are also stocked by Waitrose, as well as Genesis
Crafty Lemon & Raisin Pancakes and Genesis Crafty Double
Butter & Cheese Scones.
RHM Bakeries Ireland
RHM Bakeries Ireland is a leading supplier of bread and
morning goods products from its Belfast Bakery. The
company’s baking heritage stretches back over 130 years
with the famous Ormo brand, which holds brand leadership
in the pancake, potato bread, soda bread and wheaten
bread sectors of the morning goods category.
The nationally famous Hovis & Mother’s Pride brands also
play a core role within the portfolio for supply to the
local Irish market. RHM Bakeries Ireland also has
listings in the Republic of Ireland and GB marketplaces.
RJF Jennings
RJF Jennings has been manufacturing Butterfly Buns, Tray
Bakes and Apple Tarts for 20 years. The company has a
reliable local van sales distribution to Spar and Mace
stores across Northern Ireland and is the exclusive
supplier of butterfly buns to Morrison’s. Plans are
currently underway to expand their customer base to
other main supermarket chains within the UK and RoI.
Scotts Bakery Ltd
Established in 1968 Scott’s Bakery Ltd specialises in
Fairy Cakes and Mini Muffins and supplies major
multiples including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and
convenient stores such as Spar, Mace, Costcutters and
Supervalu with own and private label products. The
company operates from a 40,000 sq ft modern, customized
bakery facility in Fivemiletown in County Tyrone.
Steve’s Cakes Ltd
Steve’s Cakes Ltd, established in July 2002 operates
from a state-of-the-art purpose built 20,000 square ft
manufacturing and distribution facility. The company
specialises in the production of some of the nations
favourite tray bakes including Caramel Squares, Tiffin
Squares, Paradise Squares, Cornflake Squares, Fruity
Squares, Crispie Squares, Fifteens, Shortbread and
Flakemeal Biscuits.
The Antrim based company supply multiple and independent
retail outlets throughout Ireland and the UK.
The Sunstart Bakery in Ballymena, Cunty Antrim,
currently manufactures own label wheat and gluten-free
cakes and biscuit brands for all major supermarkets
across Great Britain, Ireland and Continental Europe,
including Morrison’s, Tesco and Asda.
Three year’s ago the bakery secured its first sales in
North America for its Sunstart-branded ‘Golden Crunch
Cookies’. Clients include Shoppers Drug Mart and Sobey’s
supermarket chain. Sunstart is now Northern Ireland’s
biggest exporter of bakery products to North America and
one of the biggest in Europe in terms of wheat and
gluten-free biscuits and cookies.
Breakfast Cereals & Grains
Kestrel Foods
Kestrel Foods is one of Ireland’s leading snacking
companies offering a premium range of dried fruit, nuts
and seeds under the Forest Feast brand. A.M. Essential
contains top quality Forest Feast dried fruit or nuts
with specially formulated granola in two delicious
variants; A.M. Essential Roasted Nuts and A.M. Essential
Red Berries.
White’s
As one of Ireland’s oldest brands, White’s has been
milling oats in Tandragee in County Armagh since 1841.
White’s produce a wide range of hot and cold oat-based
breakfast cereals, from traditional porridge oats to
ready-to-eat crunchy oat clusters with fruit. White’s
Real Fruit Porridge breakfast cereal in innovative
Quattro bags is available in cranberry, apple and
cinnamon, and sultana, raisin and apricot. White’s has
also expanded its range of Organic Oats, with Jumbo Oats
being joined by Quick Cook Oat Flakes, Pinhead Oatmeal
and Oat Bran.
White’s supply all sectors of the food market including
multiples, symbol groups & independents and also
supplies their products to an increasing number of
export customers including Spain, Malaysia Singapore,
Indonesia. Jordan and Dubai.
Butter and Spreads
Ballyrashane Co-op
Ballyrashane Co-op was founded in 1896 and is Ireland’s
oldest registered Farmers
Co-operative Creamery still in operation. In addition to
a range of own branded products, (dairy products
including milk, cream, butter, buttermilk & Regato
cheese), Ballyrashane Co-Op provides leading retailers
with a range of retailer branded products e.g. Spar,
Vivo, M&S. Butter & Cheese are also exported on a
world-wide basis.
Dale Farm is one of the UK’s leading dairy processors
and part of the United Dairy Farmers Group, a leading UK
dairy co-operative owned by 1900 member farmers who
supply it with over 1 billion litres of milk per year.
Dale Farm produces a wide portfolio of consumer products
and food ingredients which are made across 5
manufacturing centres in the UK. The Company, who has
won numerous awards for its products and sales, exports
world wide to over 42 countries.
Within the UK & Ireland, Dale Farm supplies a wide range
of dairy products into the retail and foodservice
sectors under its own brands – Dale Farm and Dromona.
The company also provides a broad range of retailer own
brand products.
Cheese
Ballyrashane Co-op
Ballyrashane Co-op was founded in 1896 & is Ireland’s
oldest registered Farmers
Co-operative Creamery still in operation. In addition to
a range of own branded products, (dairy products
including milk, cream, butter, buttermilk & Regato
cheese), Ballyrashane Co-Op provides leading retailers
with a range of retailer branded products e.g. Spar,
Vivo, M&S. Cheese is exported on a world-wide basis.
Dale Farm is one of the UK’s leading dairy processors
and part of the United Dairy Farmers Group, a leading UK
dairy co-operative owned by 1900 member farmers who
supply it with over 1 billion litres of milk per year.
Dale Farm produces a wide portfolio of consumer products
and food ingredients which are made across 5
manufacturing centres in the UK. The Company, who has
won numerous awards for its products and sales, exports
world wide to over 42 countries.
Within the UK & Ireland, Dale Farm supplies a wide range
of cheese products into the retail and foodservice
sectors under its own brands – Dale Farm, Dromona and
Rowan Glen . The company also provides a broad range of
retailer own brand products.
Fivemiletown Creamery is a small farmer owned
cooperative based in the Clogher Valley on the County
Tyrone / County Fermanagh border. The Fivemiletown range
consists of a number of artisan speciality soft cheeses
including Ballybrie, naturally smoked Ballyoak with its
velvety texture and rich oaky aroma and Ballyblue, the
first blue cheese to be developed in all of Ireland.
Cooneen is a soft goats cheese brie and Fivemiletown
produce a range of Cheddars too in a number of formats
(sliced/grated/block). Boilie Goat’s Cheese filled with
Pesto and Black Olive Tapenade were launched in July
21010 at the Nantwich International Cheese Show.
Around 95 per cent of the company’s premium products are
now sold outside Northern Ireland and feature on the
shelves of many of the world’s biggest food retailers.
Glanbia Cheese Ltd is the No.1 European supplier of
pizza cheese solutions with unrivalled patented and
proprietary technology. Established in the early 1980’s
Glanbia’s customers include full service restaurants,
home delivery/takeaway, retail deli-retail and contract
catering. Glanbia’s joint venture with Leprino Foods Inc
in 2000, has resulted in propriety technology transfer
of significant capital investment within the company’s
two UK production facilities. This has given Glanbia a
unique position in Europe in terms of plant
efficiencies, product consistency and new product
development opportunities.
Chocolate & Confectionery
Baxter Murray Creative Chocolates
Established 15 years ago, Baxter Murray Creative
Chocolates specialises in bespoke moulded chocolate for
the corporate/promotional markets and a wide range of
truffles.
All the chocolate moulds and the packaging are designed
in-house to customer requirements, with over 4,000
moulds currently in-stock. Since March 2010 Baxter
Murray has been supplying Dublin Zoo’s shops and
souvenir and gifts centre with a bespoke range of
hand-crafted Belgian chocolate lollies shaped like
various zoo animals and birds.
CoCouture
Belfast based CoCouture, a gourmet chocolatier, was
established in March 2008 by trained chef Deirdre
McCanny. CoCouture produces handmade chocolates in small
batches using only the finest raw ingredients from
respected chocolate suppliers in Italy and France. High
profile customers include Liberty in London.
In December 2009, Deirdre launched a gourmet chocolate
boutique in Belfast and expanded her product portfolio,
adding chocolate caramels and bags to the established
range of boxed truffles and three lines of bars – rum
and raisin, dark chocolate, and milk chocolate and
honeycomb. As well as CoCouture products, the boutique
stocks chocolate from other gourmet chocolatiers.
Coffee
Johnsons Coffee
Lisburn-based Johnson’s Coffee is a family business that
began roasting coffee in the early 1900s. Johnsons’ two
main brands are produced for both the retail grocery and
foodservice sectors: Johnsons Coffee - filter coffee in
a plethora of blends and Bellagio Espresso in three
blend options.
Exports now contribute 25 per cent of the company’s
sales and Johnsons Irel coffee brand, a 100 percent
Arabica gourmet coffee, is available in the US via
Albertson’s LLC. Eight other US retail groups, including
Shaws, Stop & Shop and Schnucks, now sell Johnsons
coffee in 227gm packs. The company has also recently
started exporting to the Al Maya group in Dubai.
Condiments & Table Sauces; Dips & Marinades; Dressings,
Fats & Oils
Rich Sauces
Rich Sauces is recognised as Ireland's leading producer
of mayonnaise, sauces, dressings and bouillon for
customers in foodservice/catering, sandwich and salad
manufacturing, industrial catering, ready meals
production, restaurants and retailing.
The company currently produces over 100 products in a
purpose built 55,000sq ft factory in Newtownards in
County Down and has an extensive portfolio of customers
throughout the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland,
other parts of Europe and America.
En Place Foods UK Ltd
En Place Foods UK Ltd designs, develops and markets
innovative, freshly prepared foods for the catering
industry & speciality retail markets. The company’s
range of foodservice products provide the professional
chef working in a restaurant, hotel or catering
environment with the building blocks & meal
accompaniment’s for creative menu development, while the
Moyallon retail brand offers restaurant flavours to
complement and enhance the home dining experience.
En Place’s foodservice range includes: fresh, infused
and flavoured oils; pesto, tapenades, reductions,
essence’s, chutney, relishes, savoury marmalades &
dressings. Molecular gastronomy ingredients, aromatiser
sprays & natural flavours for chefs.
The Retail range includes: chutney & relish meal
accompaniments from the Moyallon brand & En Place
ingredients for professionals range made available in
retail pack formats for the home cook.
Crisps
Tayto is one of the most famous of Northern Ireland
brands and manufactures a very wide range of potato
crisps and snacks in single and multipacks. In addition
to the standard crisps and corn snacks, the company
produces crinkle-cut and hand-cooked crisps, adult fried
snacks, pork scratchings, tortilla chips and a low-fat
baked snack. Products are manufactured under the Tayto,
Golden Wonder, Real and Mr Porky's brands. Tayto also
manufactures crisps and snacks under Private Label for
the leading retailers in Great Britain and Ireland.
Mackle Snacks
Established in 2004, Mackle Snacks operates from a
purpose built factory equipped with the latest equipment
in extrusion, flavouring and packaging to manufacture a
range of snack products. Mackle Snacks currently
supplies to major retailers and under private label
throughout NI, ROI and the UK.
The company produces extruded corn snacks, fried snacks
and crisps in a variety of flavours from Salt and
Vinegar sticks to cheese puffs, available in a range of
formats from single 20g pack to 100g packs and multi
packs. The product range also includes a full range of
kosher snacks in a large variety of flavours and
packaging styles, extruded rice crispes, cocoa crisps
and extruded wheat for the further processing in food
products.
Eggs
Ready Egg Products
Located in Lisnaskea in County Fermanagh, Ready Egg
Products specializes in the manufacture of high quality
pasteurized egg products packaged either in bulk
pallecons or bag in box (e.s.l.). The company operates
from a state-of-the-art processing plant using hi-tech
pasteurization with the facility to customize mixes. The
plant currently produces peeled, hard-boiled, liquid
eggs and high quality pasteurised egg products for the
food service and food manufacturing industries
throughout Great Britain and Ireland.
Skea Egg Farms
Skea Egg Farms is a growing family business situated
outside Dungannon and supplies Free Range, Barn,
Organic, Omega 3 and Standard eggs at competitive
national scale levels.
Fish / Seafood / Shellfish
C&N Chambers
Situated in Northern Ireland’s premier port, Kilkeel,
C&N Chambers supplies quality fresh and frozen fish to
the UK and throughout Europe. The company is also
represented in the other major fishing ports throughout
Ireland.
Product Range includes: Live - Scallops, Brown Crab,
Mussels, Langoustines
Fresh/Chilled - All types white fish, King Scallops,
Mussels, Brown Crab,
Crab Claws, Langoustines, Velvet Crab
Frozen - Brown Crab, Crab Claws, Langoustines, Velvet
Crab
Smoked - Cod, Haddock
Cooked - Brown Crab, Crab Claws, Langoustines, Velvet
Crab
C & O Milligan
From their modern well-equipped factory in Ardglass in
County Down, C&O Milligan currently exports large
volumes of pelagic and other fish species worldwide.
Product Range includes: Fresh/Chilled: Herring-flaps,
deli cut (headed and gutted) and whole/ round Mackerel,
(headed and gutted), Flaps single fillets, whole/ round
Fresh White Fish, Fresh Spratts.
Cuan Sea Fisheries
Cuan is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of live
molluscs and specialises in packing live product
including fresh/ chilled oysters, cockles, clams and
winkles for the retail sector. Since its establishment
in 1974, Cuan has gained vast experience in the
production and handling of live molluscan shellfish. It
pioneered the production, distribution and marketing of
pacific oysters in the UK. All Cuan’s sites are class A
and situated in Strangford Lough, a marine nature
reserve. As a further safeguard, Cuan offers full
independent microbiological testing for each batch, both
before and after depuration.
Dundrum Bay Oyster Fishery
Dundrum Bay Oyster Fishery was established in 1984 and
cultivates oysters and mussels in Dundrum Bay in County
Down. Oysters are grown in cages supported on trestles
and mussels are re-laid on the seabed where they are
allowed to mature. The shellfish are harvested and
processed by trained staff in a modern EC approved
purification and dispatch centre. Shellfish can be
delivered in a range of pack sizes to suit customer
requirements. The complete process is strictly
controlled to high standards to ensure the customer
receives a first class quality product. The business
supplies fresh shellfish to the catering and wholesale
trade throughout Ireland and Great Britain.
Euro Shellfish (Park Gate Foods)
Euro Shellfish/ Park Gate Foods was established in 1984
and has historically specialised in manufacturing
breaded scampi. The modern factory is located at the
harbour in Portavogie in County Down.
Euro Shellfish has recently extended its range of
breaded products to include new fish and shellfish
species. The new range now encompasses the company’s
original and popular Portavogie wholetail and breaded
Scampi, Breaded Cape Hake Medallions, Breaded Scottish
Salmon Medallions, Breaded Scallops and a new scampi
line
Peninsula Isle Scampi.
Kilkeel Kippering Co. Ltd
Kilkeel Kippering Co. Ltd. is a family run business that
has been in operation since 1977. Since 1994 the company
has been producing Herring and Mackerel which is
seasonal from approximately August to April. Mackerel is
filleted, frozen and shipped throughout Europe. During
and mainly out of season the company produces breaded
Scampi which is distributed to the UK mainland.
McElroy Fish Exports
Established in 1982 Mc Elroy Fish Export is an
independent family owned business. The company sources
all its fish from Lough Neagh, the biggest fresh water
lake in the British Isles and one of the largest and
most productive waters in Europe, producing sustainable
stocks. Mc Elroy Fish Export is in the process of
expanding the business to cater for larger volumes of
course fish, for example roach and bream, which the
company plans to export to Eastern Europe.
Northern Salmon Company
Northern Salmon Company Ltd is the sole producer of
“Glenarm” Organic Salmon. The fully integrated operation
encompasses a fresh water hatchery and two sea sites at
Glenarm in County Antrim on the Irish Sea coastline. The
re-emergence of the seafood has been a remarkable
triumph for the Northern Salmon Company, which saw
salmon in its seawater farms totally wiped out by an
unprecedented jellyfish invasion in November 2007.
New investors helped get the small company back on its
feet and to restock two seawater farms at Glenarm Bay
and Red Bay in the cold but invigorating Irish Sea. The
new products will be marketed under the Glenarm Organic
Salmon brand – the Northern Salmon Company acquired
organic status in 2001 – and certified by the
influential Organic Food Federation (OFF).
Rockall Seafoods
Rockall Seafoods, based in the port of Kilkeel in County
Down was established in 1980 and specialises in the
production of breaded and peeled scampi. Using the
latest processing equipment, Rockall Seafoods are able
to offer products with various coatings that include
battered and ovenable scampi. These are supplied
throughout the UK and Europe.
Rooney Fish
Established in 1975, Rooney Fish is a family-owned and
managed company based in Kilkeel in County Down. Rooney
Fish specialises in the processing, cooking, chilling
and freezing of fresh whole langoustines, king scallops
and white fish such as cod, whiting, monkfish and
haddock.
The company, which has offices in France and Italy,
operates from one of the industry’s most modern and EC
approved processing plants with extensive freezing
storage capacity. It sources its shellfish from local
fishing fleet, purchasing about 90 per cent of the local
catch.
The company has installed new and fully automated
cooking machinery that enables it to offer customers new
added-value products. Rooney Fish developed the
machinery in association with a team of Canadian
engineers with vast experience in the shellfish
processing industry. The unique cooking system is the
only one of its type in operation throughout the global
industry.
S & P Milligan
S & P Milligan are processors and exporters of both
herring and mackerel. From their factory in Ardglass in
County Down, they export to EC countries and beyond.
Fruit
Benburb Bramleys Ltd
Benburb Bramleys Ltd is an established family-run
Bramley apple processor situated just outside the County
Tyrone village of Benburb. Established in 1991, the
company specialises in the production of high quality
fresh 'preserved' Bramley apple products for the UK and
Northern Irish Bakery industries.
The company operates from a new 'state-of-the-art' apple
peeling facility, floatation and colour sorting systems,
and a fully automated computer controlled production
system. The product range now includes: Apple Dice -
various particle sizes available; Apple Slices - various
dimensions available; Milled Apple - 'Coarse' or 'Fine'
textures available and Apple Pulps - from high quality
green pulps to 'white' whole apple pulp.
Davison Canners Ltd
Established in 1973, Davison Canners Ltd is one of the
most innovative Bramley Apple processing and industrial
warehousing companies across the island of Ireland.
Davison’s product range includes: Bramley Apple Slices –
available in aseptic pouch bags and additive free, this
shelf stable bramley apple product is ideal for
bakeries, caterers and food service customers. Total
Fruit Pots are available in Apple & Blackberry; Apple &
Raspberry; Apple & Cinnamon and Just Apple flavours in a
4 pot variety pack and 2 pot packs for the retail and
vending sectors.
Davison's 'Frudles' have been designed especially for
kids and for 5-a-day emergencies. Frudles are full of
apples and berries, 100% natural, fat free and with no
artificial colourings or preservatives and are available
in a 4 pot variety pack in the following flavours: Apple
& Blackberry; Apple & Raspberry; Apple & Strawberry and
Apple & more apple!
MacNeice Fruit Ltd
The MacNeice family has been growing apples in Ardress
in County Armagh since 1855 and established their apple
cannery in 1969. MacNeice Fruit supply a range of fruit
products, from A10 cans for foodservice and wholesale to
bulk formats for manufacturing purposes. The company
specializes in the growing and processing of Bramley
apples. MacNeice Fruit also produce ready-to-use
rhubarb, sweet mince and bespoke fruit fillings and
focus on new product development, constantly adding new
flavours.
The company’s processing facility consists of over
5,000m2 of modern processing and storage space across a
3 Hectare site. Staff’s dedication to consistently
producing top class products using state-of-the-art
production technology is key to the company's success.
Orchard County Foods
Established in 1990, Orchard County Foods produces
natural, convenient and healthy fresh- cut fruit
products, ready-to-eat snacks and fruit salad pots under
the brand name Simply Fruit. The Simply Fruit range
includes convenient Snack Packs, Pots and Trays as well
as a range of Frozen Patisserie Products. All are
available in a range of weights and fruit combinations.
Orchard County Foods supplies some of the biggest names
in the UK and Ireland retail and foodservice sectors
with product in single-serve packs, pots, trays and
2.5kg and 5kg bulk containers. Orchard County Foods
supplies 100% of Tesco’s Fresh Fruit Snack Packs across
the UK and Ireland. The company also supplies own-label
fresh fruit snacks to SuperValu stores in the UK and
Ireland and Freshways fruit snacks for Kerry Foods, to
name but a few of its blue-chip customers across the
independent and multiple retail, food service, airline
catering and public body sectors.
P McCann and Sons
Established in 1968 P McCann and Sons is a family run
business which specializes in the processing and packing
of apples, pears, pure apple juice and cider from a
state-of-the-art facility in Portadown. The company
sources its Dessert & Bramley apples and pears from a
number of growers from all over Ireland and the UK.
McCanns are listed with all the major supermarkets
throughout Ireland and the UK as well as supplying the
wholesale and catering/food service markets.
Ice Cream & Yoghurts
Founded in 1954, Mullin’s ice cream range includes dairy
ice cream, ice cream cakes and sorbets. The company’s
retail range is available throughout Northern Ireland in
Sainsburys, Supervalu, Mace, Costcutter and Spar. For
the foodservice and catering sector, Mullin’s offers
4.75 litre tubs in four flavours - vanilla, honeycomb,
strawberry and chocolate. Mullin’s produces the unique
award winning Bally Bleat goat’s milk ice cream.
Mullin’s Ice Cream cakes are available in the UK food
service market via Castell Howell Foods.
Award winning Clandeboye Yoghurt located on the historic
Clandeboye Estate in County Down, uses milk from its own
UK award winning Holstein and Jersey herds to produce a
range of natural, Greek style and flavoured Yoghurts.
Clandeboye Estate’s range of Greek style and Natural
yoghurts 150 gm and 450 gm pots are listed with
Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Asda. The speciality range
includes yoghurts blended with Strawberry, Raspberry or
Toffee & Caramel. West Horsley Dairy of Woking in Surrey
distributes the range in GB.
Glastry Farm
The Taylor family have been farming dairy cows and
producing milk since 1856 at Glastry Farm in County Down
and Will Taylor, a fifth generation dairy farmer
produces the richest, creamiest ice-cream, made fresh
every day in Glastry Farm's modern processing plant.
500ml (retail) & 5 Litre (foodservice) tubs are
available in 7 delicious core flavours including: Berry
Berry Blueberry, Strawberry Blonde, Rhubarb and Custard,
Yellowman Honeycomb, Chocolate Heaven, the award-
winning, Vanilla Bean and Kilbeggan Whiskey. In addition
there are 14 flavours of ice cream and sorbets in 5
Litre tubs.
In March 2010, Glastry Farm launched a new Irish Whiskey
Ice cream made from the award winning Kilbeggan Irish
Whiskey. Glastry supplies SuperValu, Centra and Mace
stores as well as many of Northern Ireland’s leading
hotel and restaurants.
Glastry Farm Ice Cream is also widely available in the
Republic of Ireland from The Greenman in Dunfanaghy to
the Donnybrook Fair shops.
Ingredients
Buchanan’s
Established in 1871, WG Buchanan & Son Ltd (Brand name:
Buchanan’s) processes, packs and distributes a variety
of dried foods, including cereals and pulses, rice,
pasta, dried fruit and other bakery ingredients.
Buchanan's currently has a product range of around 70
different lines. Its customers include the major
supermarkets, foodservice suppliers and wholesalers in
Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and throughout the
UK .
Dale Farm is one of the UK’s leading dairy processors
and part of the United Dairy Farmers Group, a leading UK
dairy co-operative owned by 1900 member farmers who
supply it with over 1 billion litres of milk per year.
Dale Farm produces a wide portfolio of consumer products
and food ingredients which are made across 5
manufacturing centres in the UK. The Company, who has
won numerous awards for its products and sales, exports
world wide to over 42 countries.
Through its award-winning Dale Farm ingredients
division, the company is a major player in the
international food ingredients market supplying major
food processors in the UK, European and overseas dairy
export market.
Finlay’s Food
Founded in 1970 Finlay’s Food produces an extensive
range of quality fresh and dry food ingredients in four
bespoke production departments, all of which operate to
EFSIS Global Standard.
Key lines in the fresh ingredient range include a wide
selection of ‘ready to use’ fruit pie fillings, and
cheesecake toppings, fruit sauces, sweet mince, trifle
jellies and vinegar, while dry ingredients include
dehydrated apple and fruit pie fillings, coconut
macaroon mix, custard powder, jelly crystals, vermicelli
(sugar strands available in both standard and natural
colours), bulk jams and spreads and scone mix including
blending facilities for bespoke product. The company
also manufactures Bulk Jams and Spreads from 12.5kg
Buckets to 1000 litre tanks.
The company exports to many countries including: UK,
Ireland, Malta, Germany, Africa, Saudi Arabia & Holland
where its products are available through a number of
other key distributors in the food manufacturing and
foodservice sectors.
Neill’s
Established in 1867, Neill’s Flour was the very first
flour mill in Europe to obtain ISO 9002 and now stands
at the forefront of Northern Ireland’s flour milling
industry. This has been achieved through massive
investment and development of technology, which has
enabled the mill to produce a consistently high quality
product range.
Neill’s range of home baking mixes includes; Irish
Buttermilk Scone Mix; Irish Wheaten Bread Mix; Irish
Soda Bread Mix and Apple & Cinnamon Mix. The range
provides consumers with a product which lets them enjoy
all the benefits of home baking with none of the mess
‘Simply Add Milk’.
Liqueurs & Spirits
Boozeberries
Barbara Hughes and her husband Stuart, based in Dromore
in County Down, bought artisan liqueur company
Boozeberries in May 2010. Unlike so many competitor
berry liqueurs which are made from pureed fruit, syrups
or other flavourings, Boozeberries features whole fruit
and is available in three flavours: Zesty Blackcurrant,
Wild Blueberry and Wild Cranberry.
Production is supplied by a specialist liqueur company
in Ireland to unique recipes, using a mellow Irish grain
spirit. Each bottle is hand-made - berries are placed in
the bottle and topped with spirit. The bottled is then
corked, sealed and left to infuse for about four months.
During this time the spirit takes on the colour, aroma
and intense flavour of the berries in a totally natural
way.
Niche Drinks Company Ltd
Since 1983, Niche Drinks have been producing Cream
Liqueurs of the highest quality for a number of retail
partners in Ireland, UK and Europe. Niche Drinks also
work with multinational drinks companies to create world
class brands.
The product range includes cream liqueurs made from
triple distilled aged Irish Whiskey through to wine
based and flavoured creams; Shannon’s Microwaveable
Irish Coffee and non cream products such as ready to
drink cocktails, schnapps, coconut rum and coffee
liqueurs.
Milk & Milk Products
Ballyrashane Co-op
Founded in 1896, Ballyrashane Co-op is Ireland’s oldest
registered Farmers
Co-operative Creamery still in operation. In addition to
a range of own branded products, (dairy products
including milk, cream, butter, buttermilk & Regato
cheese), Ballyrashane Co-Op provides leading retailers
with a range of retailer branded products e.g. Spar,
Vivo, M&S.
Dale Farm is one of the UK’s leading dairy processors
and part of the United Dairy Farmers Group, a leading UK
dairy co-operative owned by 1900 member farmers who
supply it with over 1 billion litres of milk per year.
Dale Farm produces a wide portfolio of consumer products
and food ingredients which are made across 5
manufacturing centres in the UK. The Company, who has
won numerous awards for its products and sales, exports
world wide to over 42 countries.
Within the UK & Ireland, Dale Farm supplies a wide range
of dairy products into the retail and foodservice
sectors under its own brands – Dale Farm, Dromona,
Spelga, Rowan Glen, Dale Farm Lakeland, Dale Farm Ice
Cream and Loseley. The company also provides a broad
range of retailer own brand products.
Pritchitt’s
Pritchitts deliver specialist, value-added products to
the global foodservice and bakery markets including a
wide range of high quality extended life and long life
dairy and dairy related products especially developed
for the caterer.
Key brands include Millac, Roselle, Comelle and Viva,
products that are essentially dairy based but in many
cases have been enhanced to make them more user friendly
and cost effective for the busy caterer.
Mushrooms
Hughes Mushrooms
Established in 1965, Hughes Mushrooms, one of the UK’s
premier and most successful mushroom marketing companies
operates from a state-of-the-art premises based in Moy
in County Tyrone. The company’s 35 affiliated growers
are audited and certified with Assured Produce or Bord
Bia.
Hughes Mushrooms “Gathered Goodness” gourmet range of
brown & white mushrooms are grown in special
selenium-enriched soil and includes: 300g breakfast;
250g chestnut closed cup; 250g portabello and 150g
portabellini.
Hughes Mushrooms supply and distribute throughout
Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and mainland
UK. Customers include major retailers such as: Sainsbury
UK, Musgrave NI, SQ Ireland, food service, wholesale and
processing companies.
McArdle Mushrooms
McArdle Mushrooms grows organic mushrooms and supplies
multiples, local retailers, box schemes and wholesale
markets with a full range of organic mushrooms,
including: chestnut, portabella, button and closed cup.
From its state- of-the-art packhouse, McArdle Mushrooms
provides a full cool chain distribution service that
meets the requirements of Assured Produce and Soil
Association.
Unimush
Unimush is a leading distributor of a wide selection of
whole and sliced mushrooms, including closed cup,
button, breakfast flat, chestnut and portobello and
supplies retail, wholesale, food service and catering
outlets in various pack sizes to suit customer
requirements. The company’s state-of-the-art mushroom
slicing and bagging operation enables Unimush to supply
bagged, sliced mushrooms, using a laser perforated
anti-mist film.
Unimush also supplies a range of hand-prepared stuffed
flat and cocktail mushrooms under the Mushroom House
brand name in a four-pack of large flat and 12-pack of
cocktail (closed cup) stuffed mushrooms, as well as a
two-pack of flat and six-pack of cocktail, which are
targeted at single households.
Nuts & Snacks
Good4U Food & Drink Co Ltd
Cookstown- based Good4U is a family owned and managed
health food company operating in a state-of-the-art
facility in County Tyrone. Established in 2004, Good4U
produces innovative products including sprouted seeds,
roasted seeds, healthy snacks, wheatgrass and functional
drinks.
Good4U’s customers include Marks & Spencer UK,
Sainsburys UK, Choithram UAE, Sainsburys NI, Tesco ROI,
Superquinn, MSVC, Dunnes Stores, Pallas Foods and a
number of Independent retailers in Ireland.
Kestrel Foods one of Ireland’s leading snacking
companies offers a premium range of dried fruit, nuts
and seeds products under the Forest Feast brand. The
Forest Feast range offers an array of products from the
healthy snack to the more indulgent treat.
Forest Feast sales growth has been driven by strong
distribution in the United Kingdom and Irish multiple
arena and with the independent and symbol groups.
In addition Kestrel Foods has a highly successful own
label business serving major multiples across United
Kingdom and Ireland.
Linwoods Health Foods
Linwoods Healthy Super Foods are a range of cold milled
and blended Flax, Hemp, Sunflower, Pumpkin, Sesame
Seeds, Almonds, Brazil Nuts, Walnuts and Goji Berries to
provide any meal with the nutritious boost of vitamins,
minerals and essential fatty acids needed to support a
well balanced diet and active lifestyle. Linwoods
healthy super foods are available throughout health,
grocery stores and pharmacies throughout Ireland, UK,
Spain and Holland.
Mackle Snacks
Established in 2004, Mackle Snacks operates from a
purpose built factory equipped with the latest equipment
in extrusion, flavouring and packaging to manufacture a
range of snack products. Mackle Snacks currently
supplies major retailers throughout NI, ROI and the UK.
The company’s range includes extruded corn snacks, fried
snacks and crisps in a variety of flavours from Salt and
Vinegar sticks to cheese puffs, available in a range of
formats from single 20g pack to 100g packs and multi
packs. The product range also includes a full range of
kosher snacks in a large variety of flavours and
packaging styles, extruded rice crispies, cocoa crisps
and extruded wheat for the further processing in food
products.
Soft Drinks
Coca-Cola HBC Northern Ireland launched its all-Ireland
manufacturing and bottling plant, a £93million
state-of-the-art facility at Knockmore Hill in Belfast
in 2010. The company is proud to be Ireland’s leading
non alcoholic drinks supplier and its extensive
portfolio includes popular brands such as Coca-Cola,
Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Fanta, Sprite, Appletiser,
Relentless, Deep RiverRock, Fruice and the Schweppes
range.
Norbev
Norbev, Northern Ireland’s leading soft drinks contract
packer, has developed into one of the UK’s leading
contract bottlers for ‘blue chip’ customers such as
Coca-Cola, Britvic, Vimto, GSK,Spring Cool, and major
German discounter Aldi.
Established in 1919, the company has experienced
continual growth, with the installation of state of the
art bottling lines – both PET and Glass lines. The lines
are specifically designed with rapid change parts to
handle a wide range of bottles and pack sizes. Norbev
produces upwards of 100 million bottles of soft drinks
and water annually.
P McCann & Sons / Harvest Juices
Established in 1968 by Patsy McCann, P McCann and Sons
is a family run business which specializes in the
processing and packing of apples, pears, pure apple
juice and cider. Operating from a state-of-the-art
facility in Portadown, with long term ULO controlled
atmosphere computerized storage, McCann’s can guarantee
continuity in quality from the start of the season to
the end of the season.
To compliment its juice range, McCanns is now blending
apple juice with various berry fruit and vegetable
extracts to provide customers with more choice. The
company sources its dessert & Bramley apples and pears
from a number of growers from all over Ireland and the
UK. McCanns are listed with all the major supermarkets
throughout Ireland and the UK as well as supplying the
wholesale and catering/food service markets.
Soup
Avondale Foods Ltd
Avondale Foods (Craigavon) Ltd. manufactures fresh soups
for distribution throughout the UK and Ireland under
supermarket own brand and the Country Kitchen brand and
are available in retail or catering formats.
Avondale’s conceptual brand ‘Brand Me’ showcases the
company’s capabilities in developing fresh products to
suit individual customer’s own label requirements.
Big Pot Co
Established in 2009 the Big Pot Co Ltd produces a wide
range of fresh hand-made soups for food service and
retail.
Foodservice: The Big Pot Co have a growing range of
deliciously satisfying options – ideal for operators
that want to rotate their soups on a daily basis. The
range is conveniently packed in re-sealable containers
(5lt)for foodservice. All soups are gluten free except
for vegetable broth which contains barley.
Retail Range: The Big Pot Co’s ‘Home Made Local Soup’
retail range in 500g pots includes: Cream of Chicken,
Vegetable Broth, Potato & Leek, Tomato & Basil and
Carrot & Coriander and Basil and French Onion. Retailing
@ £1.99 per pot, 28 day shelf life. , All soups are
gluten free except for vegetable broth which contains
barley.
Tea
Punjana
Punjana Ltd is the last remaining significant tea
blender based in Northern Ireland. Established in 1896,
Punjana is now managed by the 3rd generation of the
Thompson family, Ross and David Thompson. Punjana is the
market leader by volume in Northern Ireland and has a
rapidly growing export business with sales outside of
Northern Ireland now constituting in excess of 35% of
Punjana’s business.
Punjana has invested heavily in the latest automated
production technology alongside the development of
contemporary soft foil packaging.
Recent additions to the Punjana range include Punjana
Fairtrade, Punjana Decaffeinated and Punjana Irish
Breakfast and the brand is represented in all major UK
multiples.
Suki
Formed in 2005 by Oscar Woolley and Anne Rooney, Suki
Tea sources, blends and packages tea from all over the
World at its plant in Belfast. The company currently
markets to customers worldwide through a distribution
network and internet sales.
Suki Tea currently has a range of 40 teas which the
company sources from the world’s best plantations
including Fairtrade and organic suppliers. Of the 40, a
total of 18 are staple teas which are blends people
would be familiar with such as Irish Breakfast, Earl
Grey or Camomile and some seasonal teas such as
Fairtrade Darjeeling. The ever-growing portfolio of Suki
Tea clients include Jamie Oliver’s 15 Restaurant in
Cornwall, Rick Stein’s Restaurant in Padstow, Gallery
Yumeori in Japan, the Intercontinental Hotel in Warsaw,
Patisserie Valerie in London and Bourbon Cafe in Rwanda,
The Barbican Centre in London.
Vegetables
Avondale Foods Ltd
Avondale Foods (Craigavon) Ltd. manufactures ready
prepared vegetables, bagged salads, side salads, fresh
soups, sauces and croutons for distribution throughout
the UK and Ireland. These products are supplied under
supermarket own brand and Avondale Foods Country Kitchen
brand and are available in retail or catering formats.
Avondale’s conceptual brand ‘Brand Me’ showcases the
company’s capabilities in developing fresh products to
suit individual customer’s own label requirements.
Avondale’s delicious range of ‘Country Kitchen Deli
Selection’ side salads to the company’s portfolio have
been developed and packaged in innovative formats to
meet consumer tastes and needs. Avondale’s newest
addition to the Country Kitchen family is a range of
vegetable accompaniments including creamy potato gratin
and bistro-style garlic potatoes.
Fresh Food Kitchen (PRM Group)
Fresh Food Kitchen Ireland Limited (FFKIL) creates and
distributes a range of premium fresh salads, salad
meals, bulk salads, meal accompaniments and chilled
desserts to the Northern Ireland and ROI independent
retail and catering sector.
The company was taken over by the PRM Group in January
2007. The Fresh Food Kitchen product portfolio consists
of more than 80 chilled, ready-to- eat and convenience
products marketed to the retail and catering sector.
Core products include a range of freshly chilled
coleslaws, salads, sandwich fillers, desserts and potato
products which can be made to suit any customer
requirements.
Mash Direct
Mash Direct, is a unique award winning and family owned
farming enterprise formed in 2004, in County Down. It
comprises of a state- of- the- art food preparation
facility preparing chilled cooked vegetables. Its owners
Martin and Tracy Hamilton decided to diversify within
their wholesale vegetable farming business after careful
analysis of current market trends, changes in eating
habits and lifestyle patterns.
Mash Direct now leads the market by producing an
innovative range of quality, convenient mashed root
vegetable, potato, cabbage and other quality vegetable
products with the taste and texture of homemade food.
Mash Directs products are chilled and are suitable for
microwave or oven reheating.
The company now supplies twenty products to the retail
sector throughout Ireland, Scotland, England and
America, all of which carry the Food Standards agency’s
Traffic Light labelling for consumer assurance of their
place within a healthy balanced diet.
Tasty Foods Cuisine Ltd
Tasty Foods (Cuisine) Ltd was established in 1990 by
Conor and Kathy Daykin and produces quality and
flavour-rich chilled ready meals; chilled catering pack
meals; ambient sauces; fresh chilled soups and garlic
bread.
The company already supplies both the NI retail and
foodservice markets and key customers include Curley’s,
Dunnes, Haslett’s, Henderson’s and Nisa. It has an
established customer base in the Republic of Ireland.
Tasty Foods operates from a 10,000 sq ft
state-of-the-art production facility in Belfast and has
a longstanding commitment to new product development.
The company’s Tasty branded pies are available in four
varieties in 800g family sizes for leading retailers and
foodservice organisations.
Willowbrook
Willowbrook Foods is Ireland’s leading grower and
processor of salads, vegetables and potatoes supplying
retail, foodservice and ingredient markets locally, and
throughout the UK and Ireland.
The company has been processing vegetables and salads
for over 40 years under the Willowbrook Foods brand, as
well as leading own brands including Co-operative Food
Group, Supervalu, Centra, SPAR, Costco and Aldi. In
2009, the company undertook a rebranding exercise and
the Willowbrook Farm brand was created.
The company also produces product for leading
foodservice providers and leading brands within foods to
go including Burgerking, Dominos, KFC, Pizzahut and
Subway, as well as leading sandwich manufacturers and
savoury food manufacturers throughout UK and Ireland.
The company has invested over £5 million in the past 2
years in a new state-of- the- art salad processing
facility in Newtownards and a new salad/vegetable
processing facility at the farm site in Killinchy.
Wilson’s Country
Wilson’s Country was established in the mid 1980’s and
is now the leading potato brand in Ireland. The
company’s commitment to innovation and marketing has
positioned the business as one of the leaders in the
industry, supplying many retailers own label in addition
to their branded pre-pack potatoes and peeled potatoes.
The pre-packed potatoes are produced for the retail and
wholesale trade whilst the peeled potatoes are available
for the wholesale, food processing and catering industry
across Ireland.
Water
Antrim Hills
Antrim Hills specialises in quality branded water
products and contract bottling services. Antrim Hills’
USP is the purity of its water source - naturally
occurring Artesian Spring which is filtered through blue
basalt rock in a fully controlled catchment area. All of
Antrim Hills products are bottled at source.
The company recently re-vitalised their branded products
through a major branding evolution to communicate unique
product features such as purity and quality. Two fresh
premium brands have been created including:
Water Within: Still Artesian spring water, naturally
flavoured spring waters and juicy spring waters. These
products are targeted towards retail and food service
outlets locally and for worldwide export.
Drip and Drop: Kids range containing no artificial
flavours, preservatives or sweeteners, available as
sports cap versions in still artesian spring water,
naturally flavoured spring waters and juicy waters.
The Classic Mineral Water Co
Established in 1948 The Classic Mineral Water Company
has over 60 years experience in producing the highest
quality mineral waters and soft drinks for its
customers. A producer of soft drinks and naturally
flavoured mineral water from its own source, The Classic
Mineral Water Company was one of the first companies in
Ireland to achieve Mineral Water Status in 1994.
Currently Classic Mineral Water sells its branded
products to most major multiples in Ireland and the UK
including Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsburys, Asda and
Musgrave/SuperValu/Centra. The company is also involved
in contract packaging. Products are also exported to the
US, Middle East Mainland Europe.
Whiskey
Bushmills in County Antrim is home to Ireland’s oldest
working distillery and the only distillery in Ireland to
make triple-distilled malt whiskey. The brand portfolio
includes five award-winning whiskeys: Bushmills, Black
Bush, Bushmills 10 year Malt, 16 year Malt and 21 year
Malt. In 2008 Bushmills celebrated its 400th anniversary
with the release of a limited edition Irish whiskey of
exceptional smoothness, Bushmills 1608. Bushmills Irish
Whiskey is owned by Diageo, the world’s leading premium
drinks business.
The Feckin Drinks Company
Created by Shane Braniff, Feckin Irish Whiskey and
Feckin Spiced Irish Whiskey are two of the most unique
Irish Whiskeys ever to hit the market. Feckin Irish
Whiskey is smooth on the inside, and packaged with a
very distinctive label. A hint of heather and cane sugar
join with a wisp of smoke and honey molasses to form a
smooth, satisfying taste that’s wicked enough to suit
your wayward urges. Feckin Spiced Irish Whiskey – the
only Spiced Irish Whiskey available in the market today.
The subtle hints of your favourite spices, followed by
the sweet overtones of vanilla, enjoyed either on the
rocks or with your favourite mixer, make this the real
alternative to many of the imported spirits available
today. corporate gift offers.
Brand Names to be added to Brand List for searches:
Allinson (Allied Bakeries)
Ballyrashane
Belfast Blonde Lager (Hilden Brewery)
Burgen (Allied Bakeries)
Chef Class (Linden Foods)
Tasti (Linden Foods)
Banquet Royale Rose Veal (Kettyle Irish Foods)
Bushmills
Black Bush (Bushmills)
Clandeboye Estate Yoghurt
Clonakilty Black pudding.
Clonakilty White pudding.
Comelle (Pritchitts)
CoCouture
Cookstown
Dale Farm
Dale Farm Lakeland
Dale Farm Ice Cream
Ditty’s
Dromona
Elliott’s
Fermanagh Bacon (Kettyle Irish Foods)
Fermanagh Free Range Chicken (Kettyle Irish Foods)
Finnebrogue Oisin
Fivemiletown Ballybrie
Fivemiletown Ballyoak
Fivemiletown Ballyblue
Fivemiletown Cooneen
Fivemiletown Cheddar
Fivemiletown Boilie Goat’s Cheese
Flynns Fine Foods
Forest Feast
Grace’s Irish Biscuits
Headless Dog Ale (Hilden Brewery)
Hovis (RHM Bakeries Ireland)
Howell’s Handmade
Hulls (Doherty & Gray)
Kettyle Beef
Kingsmill (Allied Bakeries)
Lough Erne Lamb (Kettyle Irish Foods)
Loseley
McCann’s Harvest
McNamees
McWhinney’s
Meat Craft (Kettyle Irish Foods)
Millac (Pritchitts)
Molly’s Chocolate Stout (Hilden Brewery)
Mooney’s Bakery
Mother’s Pride (RHM Bakeries Ireland)
Mullins Ice Cream
Ormo (RHM Bakeries Ireland)
Prima Valley (Doherty & Gray)
Roselle (Pritchitts)
Rowan Glen
Saints & Scholars (Doherty & Gray)
Spelga
Steve’s Cakes
Sunblest (Allied Bakeries)
The Good Little Company (Finnebrogue)
Viva (Pritchitts)
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