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…

The inaugural pub quiz organised by the Northern Ireland Committee of Caravan was a resounding success. Held on Wednesday 17th September at the Beechhill Inn, Belfast, over 20 teams turned out for a great night’s craic, in the process raising [...]

The pet care market throughout the whole of the UK, including Northern Ireland, is one of the FMCG‘s most buoyant categories, with consumers treating their pets as ‘one of the family’.
Despite the hectic lifestyles of consumers in recent years that had led to a decline in ownership of cats and dogs, this trend appears to have slowed, though cat ownership is now greater…

The past twelve months have marked a return to profitability for most pig producers in Northern Ireland. The early summer saw the production downturn that has been a feature of pig farming throughout most of Europe since the beginning of [...]