Quality pays off in food industry performance

Quality-conscious cattle farmers played a big role in the food industry’s record-breaking performance for the first six months of this year.

Food and drink exports exceeded €9 billion for the first time in 2012 — but they have already increased another 8% for the year to-date in 2013.

This increase was driven by a particularly strong performance in beef exports — despite the scandal over horsemeat contamination of processed beef products, which caused processed beef sales to slump as much as 43.2% in the UK, our main beef export market.