Latest Industry News – Page 287
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NewsNew DG at PTF in September
Clare Cheney, Director General of Provision Trade Federation Limited will be retiring in September after 19 years at the helm and her successor has been appointed. She will be succeeded by Terry Jones, currently Communications Director at the Food and Drink Federation.Clare Cheney, retiring after 19 years at the PTF.Andy ...
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NewsNew BMPA president is Peter Mitchell
Peter Mitchell of OSI Food Solutions Ltd., is the new British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) president and in his opening speech at the BMPA conference last week he left government in no doubt about members views on regulation.Addressing his remarks to food and farming Minister, George Eustice he said: "We ...
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NewsButchery Masterclass a Huge Hit with Top Chefs of The Future
A group of up-and-coming chefs from two top restaurants in Edinburgh had the opportunity to hone their skills recently during a Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) butchery demonstration.Butchery classes a real hit with the chefs.Using Scotch Beef PGI and Scotch Lamb PGI, Master butcher Viv Harvey emphasised to the group, which ...
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NewsTop chefs use Welsh Lamb to turn the tables on food critics
Welsh Lamb will feature as the main course in a hugely successful charity event when London’s top chefs turn the tables on the UK’s leading food critics.Francesco-Mazzei.Action Against Hunger is staging their Too Many Critics evening at L’Anima, London’s award-winning Italian restaurant in the heart of the city run by ...
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News'Beef it up' butchers says new Yorkshire president
The new president of the Confederation of Yorkshire Butchers Councils (CYBC) is calling on butchers across the county to “beef up” their support for its annual highlight, the Great Yorkshire Pork Pie, Sausage & Products Competition weekend.New president of the Confederation of Yorkshire Butchers Councils, Roy Dykes.Keighley butcher Roy Dykes ...
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Tulip joins hidden labour exploitation campaign
Tulip Ltd has joined the growing number of food manufacturers backing the industry's ‘Stronger Together' initiative designed to help eradicate hidden labour exploitation in the UK.The initiative which was launched towards the end of 2013 is aiming to attract over 1,000 farms, food producers and labour suppliers and is a ...
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NewsKillie Pie does the 'Double'
Kilmarnock based Brownings the Bakers' 'famous' Killie Pie has been voted Scotland’s Best Savoury Product two years in a row.Brownings signature dish the 'Killie Pie' retained its title as 'Scotland’s Best Savoury Product' beating off stiff competition at the 123rd Scottish Bakers Annual Conference held in the Crowne Plaza, Glasgow.The ...
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NewsPoultry prices see slowest rate of growth for consumers since 1987
New statistics show that poultry prices have risen at the slowest rate of 29 different food categories, at around 1.8% a year on average, according to analysis by the British Poultry Council (BPC).BPC chief executive, Andrew Large: “The poultry industry’s first Economic Impact Assessment makes clear its importance to UK ...
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NewsNew brochure boosts beef shoulder profit potential
A new publication from EBLEX entitled ‘Profit from the Beef Shoulder’ is an industry first, developed to enable processors and butchers to maximise profits by adding value to the beef carcase.The bone-in beef shoulder accounts for almost 15% of the beef carcase and consists of 11 main muscles. The brochure ...
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NewsNPA appoints chief executive
Having urged its members to pay greater attention to succession planning, National Pig Association is putting its own house in order, by promoting general manager Dr Zoe Davies to the post of chief executive.Zoe Davies is the new chief executive of NPA.NPA chairman Richard Longthorp, an east Yorkshire pig producer ...
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NewsNicholson’s Butchers centenary celebrations a huge success
Nicholson’s Butchers in Whitley Bay has described the response to its landmark centenary week celebrations as “absolutely fantastic and a proud and memorable experience.”Doug Nicholson and his daughter Kathryn aboard the pony and trap used for the centenary week celebrations.The Park View shop said the weather could not have been ...
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WATOK update
There has been a further delay in WATOK deployment (Welfare of Animals at Time Of Killing) by DEFRA.FDQ Ltd,the specialist awarding body told Meat Management: "We are having a lot of calls from businesses concerned about this."WATOK was due to deploy on 20th May 2014, however on 19th May DEFRA ...
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NewsCutting it in the meat industry
Kilnford Farm Shop is celebrating Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2014 (19th to 23rd May) by registering another trainee on a Modern Apprenticeship in Meat and Poultry Processing.Apprentice Daniel Earl.Daniel Earl, 17 of Dumfries is one of 900 food and drink employees hoping to complete a Modern Apprenticeship in Scotland each year. ...
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NewsButchers ready for summer sizzler
Local butchers Mearns T McCaskie and Scott Brothers have both struck diamond with their special products for the summer of 2014. The butchers had success in the recent Craft Butcher Awards evaluation for speciality burgers and speciality barbecue products that was judged at the City of Glasgow College last month.Simon ...
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Butchery apprenticeship consultation now open
The butchery apprenticeship reform consultation led by employers including Morrisons, Faccenda, Aubrey Allen, Walter Smith Fine Foods, Fairfax Meadow and Bernard Matthews, is now open to all those working in the butchery sector. Businesses in the sector now have a 2 week window – until 30th May 2014 - to ...
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NewsPupils Challenged to Create a Commonwealth Burger
A nationwide search is underway to find the most original, creative and inspirational recipe for a ‘Commonwealth Burger’ and S1 – S3 secondary school pupils from throughout Scotland are being urged to get their entries in.In this landmark year for Scotland, with the Commonwealth Games just around the corner, Quality ...
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NewsButcher and brewer work in tandem on Grand Depart taste boost
R&J Yorkshire’s Finest Farmers & Butchers are working in tandem with West Yorkshire brewer Timothy Taylor’s to create exclusive French-style bangers and beer to tempt the tastebuds of Tour de Yorkshire fans across the region.Ooh, La, La! Toasting the success of the Tour De France beer and bangers partnership are, ...
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NewsKits inspire consumers to cook with Quality Standard Mark Beef and Lamb
A thousand Quality Standard Mark (QSM) Scheme members will soon be adorning their walls and windows with point-of-sale (POS) material from the latest bumper seasonal marketing kit from EBLEX.The summer promotional support packs are being distributed at the end of May to QSM scheme registered butchers who signed up to ...
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Fifth quarter helps cut carbon footprint of beef production
Increasing use of fifth quarter is helping cut the carbon footprint of producing a kilo of beef by around 25%, according to EBLEX.The fall has been driven by changes to Animal By-Product (ABP) regulations and increased export opportunities, helping boost consumption of red offals and edible co-products (ECP), as well ...
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NewsPIg and poultry producers urged to support industry bid for slice of £90m fund
An opportunity to access government funding to establish a Centre of Innovation was launched to producers at this year’s British Pig & Poultry Fair.Paul Toplis, Martin Douglas Dr David Parker and David Gardner urge industry to 'use it or lose it.'‘Use it or lose it’, was the rousing comment from ...
