Frozen burger sales plummet in supermarkets
According to new data from Kantar, released on Sky News, both frozen beef burger and ready meal sales have fallen by 43% and 13% respectively. The data is for the four weeks ending 17th February and whilst undoubtedly attributable to consumers turning away from buying the product, is also down to availability as more and more products were withdrawn from sale. Earlier this week Swedish furniture business IKEA withdrew all its...
Host a roast in British Beef Week
Ladies in Beef, a group of passionate female beef farmers, are calling on members of the public, restaurant owners, clubs, schools and workplaces to ‘Host a Roast’ during Great British Beef Week 2013 and raise funds for the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (R.A.B.I.). Taking place this year between 21st and 27th April, Great British Beef Week is an annual celebration of Red Tractor quality assured British beef. It is...
Are you England’s finest steak pie maker?
Do you sell a fantastic steak pie? Do your customers rave about its mouth-watering pastry and its succulent filling? Then make sure you enter EBLEX’s Steak Pie Competition to be in with a chance of winning the title ‘England’s Best!’ Pies, which must contain either beef, veal, lamb or mutton steak (or a combination of these) sourced from a quality assurance scheme, can be entered into one of the two categories below: Foodservice Open...
Alan Bennett still at the top
Legendary butcher Allan Bennett is still at the top of his game, after claiming yet another Overall Champion crown at the Butchers Roadshow and Pork Product Excellence Awards, organised by BPEX. The Codsall butcher was awarded the title for his ‘Traditional Pork Pie’ at the West Midlands event. This was attended by 30 butchers from the region, with 179 products for judges to evaluate. But he wasn’t the only butcher to claim more than...
Majority of latest DNA tests for horse are negative
The FSA has released its second set of test results from the food industry and over 99% contained no horse DNA at or above the level of 1%. Products linked to samples that did contain horse DNA above 1% included Aldi’s Today’s Special Frozen Beef Lasagne and Today’s Special Frozen Spaghetti Bolognese; ASDA’s Chilled Beef Bolognese Sauce; Co-operative’s Frozen 4 Beef Quarter Pounder Burgers; Findus’s...
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