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Meat Management partners Team GB for World Butchers’ Challenge 2018
Meat Management magazine has announced its partnership of Team GB for the World Butchers’ Challenge 2018 (WBC). The market leading meat industry publication will provide financial support and publicity to Team GB, known as the British Beefeaters, and will be backing the team online and in print as the official trade media partner. The WBC competition will see butchers from Great Britain, France (current champions), Australia, New...
Tesco takeover of Booker given provisional green light
The UK’s competition regulator has provisionally cleared Tesco’s £3.7bn takeover of Booker. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has stated that the deal could in fact increase competition in the wholesale market and mean reduced prices for consumers. CMA added that Tesco and Booker do not directly compete in most activities – particularly in supplying the foodservice sector, where Booker makes 30% of its sales and Tesco does...
Boparan Holdings profits down in full year results
Boparan Holdings, the parent company for 2 Sisters Food Group, has seen operating profits drop in the fourth quarter of 2016-17, with margins “severely affected by further inflation and foreign exchange on commodities and one-off costs”. Operating profit fell to £15.4 million in the final quarter of 2016-17, compared to £29.3 million in the same period last year, marking a 47.4% year-on-year change. Total sales were up by 5.3%, at...
Official Veterinarians’ decisions to be appealed in two stages
The Food Standard Agency’s (FSA) chief executive, Jason Feeney, announced during the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (AIMS) conference a two-stage appeal system, which will be provided when slaughterhouse operators are unwilling to voluntarily surrender carcases that Official Veterinarians have declared unfit. The procedure unveiled by Feeney was the result of several weeks of discussion between AIMS and FSA, and is expected...
Campylobacter levels continue to drop
Campylobacter levels have continued to fall in the last period of the third annual Food Standards Agency (FSA) survey, with chickens positive for the bacteria at any level being down to 54% in 2016/17, from 73.2% in 2014/15 when the surveys began. The survey, which was based on a total of 3,980 whole fresh chickens sampled at retail, found that that the figure for high-level campylobacter prevalence (more than 1,000 cfu/g) among the...
Cargill and Faccenda Foods agree to a poultry joint venture
Cargill and Faccenda Foods have announced a new joint venture focused on chicken, turkey and duck, which will see both companies take an equal shareholding. The new company will be a standalone business, with Cargill’s fresh chicken business in the UK joining Faccenda’s fresh chicken, turkey and duck business to form it. The business plans to employ approximately 6,000 people in the UK, with employees coming from both parent...
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