Latest Industry News – Page 196
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NewsMarks & Spencer signs up to new poultry welfare campaign
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has become the first retailer to pledge to meet welfare requirements for meat chickens across Europe drawn up by animal protection groups including RSPCA.According to M&S, under the campaign’s requirements, it has committed to “even more space in barns (a move to 30kg/m2) and to farming ...
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NewsMeat contributes to record Irish food exports growth
The value of food and drink exports in Ireland increased by 13% to €12.6 billion in 2017, boosted by increased output in key sectors, including pigmeat, sheepmeat and beef.According to Bord Bia’s Export Performance and Prospects 2017-2018 report, the increase represented growth of almost 60%, or €4.7 billion, since 2010, ...
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NewsGlobal meat prices down in December
International meat prices fell in December 2017, marginally below November values, according to the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organization’s (FAO) Food Price Index.The FAO Meat Price Index averaged 171.6 points last month, down from 172.6 in November, while for the year the index averaged 170 points, up 9% from ...
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NewsLMCNI launches three-year beef and lamb campaign
The Livestock and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland (LMC) has announced a three-year marketing campaign encouraging people across the country to eat more Farm Quality Assured beef and lamb.Targeting consumers via television, radio, print, online, social media and outdoor display advertising options, LMC will encourage “local consumers to seek out ...
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NewsAHDB guides to promote nutritional value of red meat
AHDB has published guidance on what health claims can be made about beef, lamb and pork to help retailers, processors and producers promote red meat.In the same way, health care professionals, including nutritionists and dieticians will be able to find in the guides legally compliant, factual information and help communicate ...
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NewsKepak acquisition of Moy Park Dublin plant completed
Kepak Group has confirmed that its acquisition of the Moy Park Poppintree facility in Ballymun, Dublin, has been completed.Kepak Poppintree is now operational under Kepak management and, according to the company, there will be no negative impact on staff numbers (approx. 35) currently employed at the plant.The acquisition was first ...
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NewsMultiple retailers boosted by strong Christmas meat sales
Fresh meat and poultry were among the best-selling products of UK supermarkets during the Christmas period, which saw shoppers splash out record amounts of cash.LidlAs previously reported, Lidl UK was the fastest growing supermarket over the Christmas period, according to Kantar Worldpanel, achieving record sales for December.Lidl UK’s Birchwood Farm ...
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NewsChristmas spending reaches £1 billion more than last year
The average household shrugged off economic worries to spend a record £1,054 on groceries over the three months including the Christmas period.According to the latest grocery market share figures from Kantar Worldpanel for the 12 weeks to 31st December 2017, a record £469 million was spent on premium own label ...
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Women in Meat Industry Awards launched by Meat Management
Meat Management magazine has confirmed the launch of a brand new Awards initiative recognising the immense contribution to the success of the meat industry made by women right across all sectors. The Women in Meat Industry Awards will highlight seven categories and the presentations to recipients will be made at ...
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NewsIkea’s Better Chicken Programme focuses on sustainable production
Ikea Food Services AB has introduced the Better Chicken Programme, the first of the Ikea Food Better Programmes for more sustainable agriculture.It contains a set of requirements for more sustainable chicken production in the Ikea food supply chain, addressing animal welfare, public health and environmental impact at farm level.An Ikea ...
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NewsIndependent retailers report buoyant Christmas trading
Independent retailers across the UK saw lifted sales this festive season, with the tradition of a whole bird having seemingly taken centre stage on Christmas tables.“Our butchers found that people returned to the tradition of a whole bird which could be perceived to be a more luxurious product than a ...
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NewsMoy Park invests £20 million in UK hatchery
Moy Park has completed a £20 million investment at Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, in what is alleged to be the “largest single-build hatchery in the UK”.The new facility is creating 55 new jobs in the area, supplying 60 farms across Lincolnshire and hatching 2.5 million chicks per week.Moy Park, Newark, Nottinghamshire. (Photo: ...
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NewsUS urges Britain to invest in American poultry after Brexit
US Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, Ted McKinney, has called on the UK to draft its own regulatory standards after Brexit and invest in American poultry.Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference, McKinney described the EU as a “very difficult place to do business” and urged ...
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NewsFirst haggis exports to Canada enough to feed 40,000
The first haggis exports to Canada have provided enough to feed 40,000 people, with 17,500 packs having gone out from Macsween of Edinburgh, the sole provider to the country.Macsween has shipped seven tonnes of haggis to Canada since the country’s ban was lifted in August.Macsween export range.Welcoming the news, Economy ...
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NewsGove outlines post-Brexit farming funding and food policy
Environment Secretary Michael Gove has set out plans for the way farming subsidies will be funded and the food policy that Defra will be focusing to deliver after Brexit.Speaking at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference, Gove announced that the Government would guarantee subsidies at the current EU level until the ...
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NewsFood industry figures among New Year’s Honours recipients
Red Tractor Assurance’s founder and first ever chief executive, David Clarke, has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year’s Honours list 2018.Clarke, a founding member of Red Tractor Assurance and now retired, has been honoured with a CBE for services to ...
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NewsFinnebrogue Artisan launches nitrite-free bacon
British bacon has received a natural makeover with Finnebrogue Artisan launching a bacon product made without nitrites.Naked Bacon from Finnebrogue Artisan.Nitrites are usually added to cured meat to achieve its characteristic pink colour, texture, some flavour and also to help as a preservative. However, for its new launch – Naked ...
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NewsMeat in volume growth despite rising inflation
Chicken, pork and other red meat are the only primary categories to have recorded volume growth in the 12 weeks to the 3rd December, with pork remaining the ‘star performer’ in both value and volume terms.According to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel, meat, fish and poultry (MFP) volume sales ...
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NewsCompass Group pays tribute to CEO who died in plane crash
Richard Cousins, the chief executive of FTSE 100 foodservice firm Compass Group, and four members of his close family have died in a plane accident in Australia on 31st December.Richard Cousins.Cousins and his fiancée, magazine editor Emma Bowden, her 11-year-old daughter Heather, and his sons Edward and William died when ...
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NewsIndustry predictions for the meat sector 2018
Meat Management asked experts across the meat sector about what they believe 2018 has in store for the industry.The British Meat Processors Association’s (BMPA) chief executive, Nick Allen, is foreseeing a Brexit-full 2018, with a number of issues that the Government will still have to resolve.BMPA's chief executive, Nick Allen.He ...
