Global sales at Irish poultry firm Moy Park hit £1.07bn (€1.35bn), according to its annual results for last year.

The North's top companies have bucked wider economic trends to record an overall increase in sales in the last year, new figures have indicated.

CHICKEN processor Moy Park has acquired O’Kane Poultry in a €30 million deal that will result in an operation with a combined staff of 8,500.

MOY PARK, the largest poultry processor in Ireland has appointed Nigel Dunlop as its new managing director and chief executive.