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Article: Covered in glory: from north and south of the border -- two companies that have carried off awards for their flair in developing exports: Fivemiletown Creamery and Dawn Farm Foods. (Awards).(Brief Article)
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- March 16, 2002
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Take one food export consultancy keen to engage with the UK's top food exporters. Add a company with big plans for a transatlantic presence and a product range developed over 30 years, and you have the recipe for scooping Food from Britain's first Northern Irish Food and Drink Exporter of the Year Award.
The Enniskillen-based Fivemiletown Creamery was established in 1898 when 65 local dairy farmers formed a co-op to produce butter.
More than 70 years later the company diversified into cheese in 1972 and now supplies Sainsbury, Safeway, Tesco, Superquinn and the Co-operative Group with own label Ballyblue, Ballyoak, Cooneen and Ballybrie varieties.
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