Linwoods produce a range of healthy super foods comprising of milled seeds, nuts and berries that provide essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals to be added to any meal at any time of the day for a nutrient packed pick me up. They are all gluten free and have no added sugar. The Linwoods healthy super foods range is sold in health food stores and grocery retail throughout Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and Middle East.
Linwoods pride themselves on excellent customer service, quality plant based products which establishes the 40 year old Armagh company as healthy as it’s products.
With its headquarters located in Armagh City the Fane Valley Group is Northern Ireland’s largest agricultural co-operative with interests in dairy processing, red meats, feed compounding, agricultural supplies, and renewable energy. The company, which has experienced substantial growth over the past 5 years, now has an annual turnover in excess of £525 million, with over 2,100 employees located on 23 operational sites in Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, England and Belgium.
In recent years Fane Valley has invested heavily in product innovation and modern production facilities. Its red meat subsidiary, Linden Foods, which was named manufacturer of the year recently at the Meat Management Awards and also picked up 2014 NIFDA Best Product Winner. They continue to develop it’s business in the supply of a range of ‘ready to cook’ meat products following a £10m investment in a new added value and retail packing facility in 2011.
Fane Valley Dairies processes 250million litres of milk per annum with an increasing proportion of this raw material being procured under direct supply arrangements with local producers. The business specialises in the production of a range of dairy ingredients including whole milk powder, skim milk powder, butter and butter oils. Under the Mourne Maid brand Fane Valley has built an international reputation as a manufacturer of quality dairy products.
Moy Park is one of the UK’s top 10 food companies, Northern Ireland’s largest private sector business and one of Europe’s leading poultry producers. Moy Park is a home-grown company founded in 1943 and has grown to become a £1.4b business with operations across the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe employing over 12,000 staff.
The company has a wide product portfolio including high quality, locally sourced poultry as well as complementary convenience products, supplied to major restaurant chains and retailers in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Recognised as Ireland’s number one poultry brand, Moy Park has an extensive branded range of high quality chicken products. This includes breaded and fresh chicken and a number of innovative ready to cook options. The Moy Park brand is stocked in major retailers and convenience stores across the UK and Ireland.
Peter Hannan is known as the Meat Merchant and for good reason. He’s a fantastic foodie who spends his life perfecting his award-winning foods that includes his unique Himalayan Salt Aged beef that has earned nine Great Taste 3 Star Awards along with the coveted Supreme Champion title in 2016”.
Hannan’s supply some of the best restaurants in Northern Ireland and further afield. Hannan’s had to build another Himalayan Salt Chamber to cope with demand for their Dry Aged Beef and exclusive Glenarm Shorthorn brand. Hannan’s pay the members of the Glenarm Shorthorn Beef Producer Scheme a premium to finish their cattle fat to improve the flavour of the finished meat. That’s why food writers the world over think it’s the best steak they have ever tasted. Top London chef Mark Hix is one of their biggest fans and uses it throughout his restaurant group. Fortnum and Mason just had to get their hands on their goods too! Their Meat Merchant shop in Moira beside the factory is open to the public offering their full range of products at wholesale prices and is also a treasure trove of other local artisan delights.
Long Meadow are an award-winning, family run, craft artisan production company established in January 2014, the result of an ambitious diversification programme. All products are produced from their home-grown, hand-picked fruit.
Long Meadow Cider is a true Armagh Craft Cider produced by father and son Pat & Peter McKeever. For three generations the McKeever men have been tending to the farm at Long Meadow, growing and producing a variety of apples including tart Bramleys (PGI) sweet Katy’s, Worcester and Golden Delicious. They know only too well the importance of high quality apples within high quality ciders. Their orchards are maintained all year round to create a healthy and substantial crop. Harvest season begins in August/September, once the apples are picked they are pressed and left to ferment and mature over the winter months.
In 2012, Long Meadow Farm diversified into the cider industry producing two varieties, Medium and Blossom Burst. They now have a third limited edition, Dry Oak Aged Cider. Their Medium Cider is sharp and refreshing, a real thirst quencher. Blossom Burst has a soft, smooth mellow taste, a great accompaniment with any meal and their Oak Aged Cider has been stored in oak aged barrels allowing apple and oak to infuse with each other leaving a boisterous dry cider. The latest additions to their range are Mulled Cider, smooth and relaxing infused with seasonal spices creating a winter warm aromatic finish and pure pressed Apple Juice, crisp and smooth, the taste of freshly squeezed apples produced from a variety of sweet apples. All products are made from 100% natural apple grown and harvested on the home farm. “FROM PLANT TO POUR – THE PERFECT DRINK”
For more than 150 years the MacNeice family has been growing and nurturing apples in their orchards in County Armagh. With more than 100 acres of wonderful apple trees this is no easy task, but cider maker Greg MacNeice learned from the best – his dad Sammy, who, like his father before him, has kept this family tradition alive. Greg is now the 5th generation apple grower.
Mac Ivors Cider Co is based in the orchards at Ardress where Mac Ivors Traditional Dry Cider, Medium Cider and Plum and Ginger Cider are produced.
It all starts with an apple and ends with great tasting pints of cider.
