Focus on Food & Drink Processing: 24 October 2026

24 October 2026 · Food and drink · Carbon · Deforestation · Packaging · Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland’s food and drink processors turn over an estimated £7.1bn, and almost half of their sales go to Great Britain. This week’s briefing covers where their emissions sit, why the farm is in every processor’s footprint, and a new section on drinks, and seven new rules arriving in fourteen months, from EU deforestation checks on 30 December to deposit return in October 2027.

Horizontal bars of 2022 sales by destination: Great Britain £3.2bn (48.5%), Northern Ireland about £1.4bn, Republic of Ireland £1.1bn, rest of the EU £631m, rest of the world £223m.

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