Ulster Grocer

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 the year converted into stronger market returns at long last. But farmers are not out of [...]