Pork and bacon producer Oakpark Foods is due to launch four new products into the UK market next month with supermarket chain Morrisons.

Tipperary company Oakpark Foods has won a gold medal at the prestigious annual own-label food and drink awards in London.

KERRY Foods won an Irish “Food Oscar” yesterday for its success on the export market with Cheesestrings, the popular snack that it produces in Charleville, Co Cork, where it employs more than 500 people.

FOOD inflation — a blip or a trend — is one of the questions being discussed at this year’s Agricultural Science Association national conference, which takes place in the Radisson Hotel Galway on September 12.