Ulster Grocer

Greg Earl admits to loving ‘a decent cup of tea’. Tea is his passion as well as his career. Today, he’s Operations Manager at Punjana in Belfast, Northern Ireland’s biggest selling tea brand and also the fastest growing brand in [...]

Having had several retailers extol its products to her recently, Kathy Jensen decided to pay a visit to Cloughbane Farm, just outside Pomeroy, where she met up with mother and son, Lorna and Richard Robinson, to find out more about this rapidly growing farm-based enterprise.

You might reasonably be forgiven for assuming that a company whose sole raison d’etre is the production of a wonderfully indulgent range of cakes and buns would be beginning to feel the pinch around now, given the current downturn in our economic fortunes. Yet for Graham’s Bakery in Dromore…

JC Recruitment has been quietly building up a reputation as the specialist retail recruitment agency in Northern Ireland. Having just placed its 200th candidate, this relatively new player is celebrating growing success – but it is a family legacy in the grocery trade that is giving the company insider expertise…

Artisan food producer or ‘food hero’ does not really begin to describe Pat O’Doherty, he’s a butcher, farmer and environmentalist, dedicated to traditional animal husbandry and meat processing methods to create natural, wholesome, healthy, flavoursome foods from animals that have lived as close as is possible in this…

Thursday 4th September marked the dawn of a new era for the ‘cash and carry business’ in Northern Ireland with the official unveiling of Musgrave’s new concept store at its Belfast Branch in Dargan Crescent following a significant investment of £1.3 million. Hailed as a first in the UK and Ireland, the eagerly…

A local company has become the leading supplier of cut flowers in Northern Ireland thanks to a successful contract with Marks & Spencer. In 2004, Greenisland Flowers was awarded the M&S contract to supply its stores in the North of England and Scotland, but this has now been expanded to include all its stores across the UK and Ireland.