Ulster Grocer

After years in the doldrums, home baking is making quite a revival. It began with a renewed interest in cooking from scratch, driven by the combined factors of the popularity of cookery programmes and recipe books and consumers wanting to emulate these, as well as by health and diet issues and a growing interest in [...]

Linwoods Foods has been awarded a top marketing accolade at the tenth annual Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Awards at the Europa Hotel, Belfast. The Armagh company won the prestigious Professional Excellence Award for Best Marketing Plan for the Linwoods Healthy Super Foods range, which is sold across Ireland, the UK, Spain and Holland and…

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 [...]

SHOP 08, Ireland’s premiere food and drink trade show (September 29-1 October), saw the main RoI launch for Glenavy-based Love Olive.
The new company showcased its range of 200 retail and wholesale products, including 55 varieties of the choicest pasteurised and un-pasteurised olives, stuffed with everything from peppers to Roquefort cheese. Also featured at the stand [...]

Every year approximately one million tonnes worth of packaging is being brought into homes right across Northern Ireland.
Most of this comes from the thousands of tonnes worth of packaging created by food manufacturers on a daily basis. Made up of unwanted wrapping and food containers, which are mostly thrown away, superfluous packaging has an extremely [...]