The Meat Management Meat Industry Awards are back for 2025, as product nominations and voting for the initiative have officially opened.
The Meat Management Meat Industry Awards is the UK’s biggest annual meat industry awards programme, celebrating industry excellence and product innovation. The initiative is open to all involved in the meat industry, including manufacturers, processors, foodservice, retailers, training providers and trade bodies across the sector.
How to enter
The awards are structured in two parts - product nominations and voting.
Product nomination is quick, easy and free. Companies can nominate an unlimited number of products in appropriate categories. If you make, sell or produce a meat product, consider nominating it into one of these categories.
Product categories for 2025:
- Britain’s Best Sausage
- Britain’s Best Burger
- Britain’s Best Meat Pie
- Best Bacon Product
- Best Free From Product
- Best Charcuterie Product
- Best Poultry Product
- Best Beef Product
- Best Pork/Pigmeat Product
- Best Lamb Product
- Best Red Meat Product
The winner of the Best Red Meat Product award will be chosen from the winners of each of the Best Lamb, Pork and Beef categories.
Voting categories for 2025:
- The Catering Butcher Award
- Best Trade Organisation
- Best Online Business
- Best Equipment/Machinery Supplier
- Training Scheme of the Year
- Young Manager of the Year (nominations required)
- Britain’s Best Butchers Shop
- Supermarket/Multiple Meat Retailer of the Year
- Manufacturer of the Year
- The Meat Management Excellence Award
For the Young Manager of the Year Award a finalists shortlist will be drawn up from the voting and candidates will be assessed by a specialist panel comprising industry specialists.
The prestigious Meat Management Excellence Award is given to a manager or senior executive who has made an outstanding contribution to the UK meat industry. Previous winners include Katie Doherty, CEO of the International Meat Trade Association; Bill Jermey, chairman of the Institute of Meat; and Dean Holroyd, group technical and sustainability director at ABP Group.
The Awards Dinner and Ceremony
The awards programme will culminate in a black-tie dinner and sparkling awards ceremony, taking place on Thursday 18th September 2025 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel. The initiative also presents the ideal opportunity to connect with likeminded professionals, old friends and key industry figures.
Previous winners of awards often report increased engagement with products and services. Winners are also given unique promotional awards logos for use on packaging and online, as well as a full-page in the Awards Review edition of Meat Management magazine.
Graham Yandell MBE, publisher of Meat Management magazine, said: “These awards really are a fantastic way to put your products on the map and reinforce just how exceptional NPD in the sector continues to be.
“The voting categories are a huge opportunity for the work of some of the best of the best in the business to be publicly acknowledged by peers and the industry at large.
“I would urge anyone and everyone in the sector to take part in this year’s Meat Management Meat Industry Awards and be proud of the sector you represent. The main thing is that you have to be in it to win it, so don’t delay!”
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit meatmanagement.com/awards
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