Summer Harvest Oils has sealed a supply deal with United Arab Emirates retailer Choithrams.

The Perth company, founded in 2008, said the agreement builds on existing contracts with Bahrain based Alosra and Lulus, a supermarket with shops across the Middle East.

Mark Bush, founder of Summer Harvest Oils, said the business had benefited from connections made during a visit to the Gulfood trade show in Dubai last year. That trip was backed by Scotland Food and Drink and Scottish Development International.

Mr Bush said: “It not every day a business from the centre of Scotland exports oil to the Middle East.”