Latest Industry News – Page 245
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NewsAmazonFresh launches in London
Amazon has today launched its AmazonFresh service to consumers based in London, meaning residents in the capital can do an online grocery shop for fresh meat and other food items via the shopping website.A variety of meat and poultry products are now available to order through AmazonFresh.Originally only available in ...
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NewsNew Birmingham office for Marel
June 9th was a red letter day for Marel’s UK operation with the formal opening of a new office in Birmingham. The new location will serve as the sales and service centre for Marel in the United Kingdom & Ireland, and is part of an on-going strategy to bring the ...
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NewsDawn Meats produces billionth burger for McDonald’s
Dawn Meats has produced its billionth Irish beef burger for McDonald’s since its €300 million deal signed in 2012, a milestone which was celebrated at its production site at Carroll’s Cross in Waterford.The plant now produces more than 400 million beef burgers per year for McDonald’s with product destined for ...
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NewsFortnum and Mason to host Welsh Lamb celebration
PGI Welsh Lamb and the increasing role it is playing on menus in some of London foremost eateries will be celebrated at an event organised by Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) and its Welsh Lamb Club.The event, to be held at Fortnum and Mason on 9th June, ...
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NewsFun and fundraising at WCB Summer Ball
Liverymen of the Worshipful Company of Butchers (WCB) gathered at the Museum of London on Friday 3rd June for the annual Master’s Fundraising Sumer Ball.WCB Master Patricia Dart with WCB clerk Major General Jeff Mason at the Summer Ball.This year, Master Patricia Dart’s chosen charity for the ball was Butchers’ ...
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NewsChicken and beef sales grow, whilst lamb and pork fall behind
Price reductions have seen the value and volume growth of chicken continue to benefit, the latest Meat, Fish & Poultry (MFP) Market Update from Kantar Worldpanel for the 12 weeks ending 22nd May 2016 has revealed.Volume growth of chicken rose 7.2% from the same period last year to 110.1 tonnes.Nathan ...
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NewsRecord uptake for MM Meat Awards 2017
The meat industry’s major annual awards event continues to go from strength to strength, with organisers YPL Events & Exhibitions reporting a record uptake of partner renewals.The MM Meat Awards 2016 winners.Organiser Emma Cash said: “The majority of our MM Meat Awards 2016 category partners have already confirmed their involvement ...
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NewsHCC signs up to Courtauld commitment
Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) has become the latest signatory to Courtauld 2025, a voluntary agreement bringing together a range of organisations involved in the food system to make food and drink production and consumption more sustainable.Courtauld 2025 aims to cut the amount of food waste.Courtauld 2025, ...
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Celtic Pride hosts supplier day
Celtic Pride recently held its supplier day at Celtica Foods, Cross Hands, with 30 Celtic Pride producers in attendance.As well as a tour around the butchery, presentations were made by representatives of the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) and also Marin Blackwell of catering butchers, Direct Meats.Pip ...
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NewsButcher sets new sausage world record
Steven Cusack of Davidsons Butchers in Inverurie is now a Guinness World Record holder (subject to Guinness verification) after setting a new sausage-making world record at the Taste of Grampian food festival this weekend.Cusack, who made 54 sausages using a Specially Selected Pork recipe mix in the 60-second time limit, ...
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NewsFinnebrogue Artisan opens £25 million processing facility
Food manufacturer Finnebrogue Artisan has opened a new £25 million state-of-the-art processing facility in Northern Ireland.Finnebrogue chairman Denis Lynn and first minister Arlene Foster officially opened the new Finnebrogue £25 million processing facility by cutting a ribbon of sausages. Photo by Aaron McCracken/Harrisons.The new facility was opened on 3rd June, ...
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Continued improvement in carcase conformation
The latest carcase classification results from Welsh abattoirs show that the long-term upward trend in conformation standards continued apace last year.The figures show that over 10% of the lamb carcases classified achieved a conformation of ‘E’ - the highest class possible on the current EUROP classification grid - almost double ...
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NewsScotch Butchers Club members attempt world record
An attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the most sausages produced in one minute will take place live at this weekend’s Taste of Grampian festival.The record attempt will be between David Patterson from Yorkes of Dundee and Steven Cusack from Davidsons Butchers in Inverurie. They will both ...
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NewsDawn Meats helps raise funds for children’s charity
Dawn Meats and 2,000 farmers who attended a recent open day at Newford Farm in Athenry, Co. Galway have teamed up to raise over €2,000 for the Ronald McDonald House Charity (RMHC).RMHC works to keep families close to their sick child by providing a ‘home from home’ with home-cooked meals, ...
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NewsNominations open for David Black Award
The pig industry has begun its search for the recipient of the David Black Award, an award given annually to recognise someone who has made a valuable and sustained contribution to the sector.AHDB Pork's Mick Sloyan is the chairman of the judging panel.Nominations are now open and the eventual winner ...
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NewsBord Bia invests in biltong
Bord Bia - the Irish Food Board - has enlisted forensic brand guidance agency TransgressiveX to develop a new snack brand with Stript Snacks.Biltong is becoming a popular meat snack.Stript Snacks specialises in traditional South African beef biltong using no chemical preservatives or sugar. The fledgling biltong brand has been ...
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NewsCatering students learn about farm-to-fork butchery
Butchers, WH Frost Butchers, and meat wholesaler, Hartshead Meats, have joined forces to help educate the chefs of the future.A group of ten catering students from Trafford College in Altrincham spent a day at Hartshead Meats’ abattoir and meat production facility in Mossley, Ashton-under-Lyne, viewing live cattle in the lairage, ...
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New beef and sheep meat inspection conditions come into force
The roll out of a new list of post-mortem rejection conditions has begun in sheep and cattle abattoirs in England.The rationalised rejection conditions, which result in all or part of a carcase being rejected for human consumption, are being introduced as the result of a project involving AHDB Beef and ...
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NewsDawn Meats hosts open day
Dawn Meats recently hosted a farm open day at its Newford Suckler Demonstration farm to highlight beef farming best practice to over 2,000 farmers.Some of the 2,000 farmers who attended the Dawn Meats farm open day at the Newford Suckler Demonstration Farm in County Galway.The 56 hectare farm in County ...
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NewsPositive new season lamb prices
New season lamb prices have started the season approximately 7 to 8% higher than this time last year, the latest analysis from Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has revealed.Stuart Ashworth, head of economic services, QMS.Stuart Ashworth, head of economics services with QMS, commented: “With the Muslim festival of Ramadan starting on ...
