Latest Industry News – Page 85
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NewsMeat awards entries set to beat all records
The annual 2022 Meat Management Industry Awards programme is now in full swing and organisers report very substantial interest in both voting and product nominations.The annual initiative is the biggest event in the UK meat trade calendar and often attracts up to 1,000 product entries from manufacturers, processors, foodservice and ...
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NewsAdministrators appointed to JC Rook and Sons Limited
In a surprise announcement, it has been confirmed that Kent butchery chain JC Rook and Sons has been placed in administration, with the administrators saying a fall in trade throughout the Covid lockdowns impacted the business and affected its profitability.Commenting on the sad development, Andrew Rook who, until his retirement ...
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NewsMixed picture for red meat sales over two year trading period
The latest Kantar figures show that over the 12 weeks ending 20th February 2022, pork was the only red meat (compared to lamb and beef) to see growth in sales on pre-pandemic levels.BeefSpend on beef declined by 7.3% while volumes fell by 13.5%. The decline in volume comes as sales ...
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NewsUkraine food producer warns of “catastrophic” impact on food supply
Dr John Rich, chairman of MHP, one of Ukraine’s biggest food producers, has said that if its operations were to fail it would pose a major risk to the country’s population.MHP is a London listed poultry company with over 30,000 workers in Ukraine.The company's Australian chairman has been running the ...
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NewsNPA calls on retailers to save British pork supply
The National Pig Association (NPA) is calling on retailers to significantly increase the price they pay for pork, following “an unprecedented spike” in feed costs.NPA said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted a dramatic leap in the price of wheat. It now stands in the region of £300/tonne, compared with ...
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NewsHCC launches campaign to tackle myths around meat consumption
Hybu Cig Cymru (HCC) has launched its #ACutAbove campaign, calling for sustainable British meat production to be central to green policy-making.The campaign comes ahead of the publication of the government’s long-awaited white paper response to Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy, and follows the IPPC report setting out the scale of ...
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NewsWomen In Meat Industry Awards announce 2022 celebrity host
This year’s Women In Meat Industry Awards Ceremony on 25th November is to be hosted by TV celebrity chef and author Rachel Allen.Rachel was a co-host of Good Food Channel’s Market Kitchen and has also appeared on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen. She currently co-hosts The Restaurant alongside Marco Pierre White for ...
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NewsRisk to food security due to Ukraine conflict, warns 2 Sisters boss
2 Sisters Food Group’s CEO Ronald Kers has warned of “a major threat” to UK food security as a result of the Ukraine conflict, leading to hyper-inflation not seen for 50 years.Ronald Kers, 2 Sisters Food Group CEO.Commenting on the conflict, Kers said: “The events in Ukraine are an unimaginable ...
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NewsDisplacement of Irish beef due to UK-Australian trade deal “highly unlikely”, says BRC
Director of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Andrew Opie told an Efra Committee panel that the event of Australian beef replacing Irish beef as a top British import wasn’t expected.Opie added that the only potential for displacement could be found in steak imports, as the current demand is for primarily ...
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NewsFood sales show marginal decline year-on-year
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) have revealed that according to its latest figures overall retail sales grew in February but food sales ‘stagnated’ due to rising costs.The organisation said that the pandemic has meant much of retail bounced between being open and closed, significantly impacting sales and changing consumer behaviours.Over ...
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NewsFollow-up to pig industry crisis summit convened
The first follow-up meeting to the pig industry crisis summit held in February was attended by representatives from the sector with the aim of assessing the backlog situation and processors’ plans to reduce it.The meeting was attended by the National Pig Association (NPA), National Farmers’ Union (NFU), several pork processors, ...
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NewsSmithfield market traders promise to ‘fight back’ over proposed relocation plans
Meat traders operating at Smithfield Market (London Central Markets) are looking to invoke a Royal Charter as a means of protecting their right to operate on the historic site near Farrington Station, London. Meanwhile, the City of London Corporation is seeking legal action through a private parliamentary bill to revoke ...
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NewsCases of African swine fever reported in Europe
New cases of African swine fever (ASF) continue to be reported throughout Europe and further afield, though no cases have been reported in the UK to date.According to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), cases in domestic pigs in Europe have been reported across Europe over the last 12 ...
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NewsIndirect and probably only minimal impact of Ukraine - AHDB
Analysis by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has suggested that the conflict in Ukraine should have “minimal” impact on the British meat trade.While Russia is a large producer of red meat, its trade volumes are moderate in comparison to other nations. Russia mainly exports pork and imports beef, ...
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NewsScientists call out claims made by anti-meat Lancet study
In a letter published by The Lancet, a group of international scientists have called on the authors of a 2019 study, which claimed a 36 fold higher estimate of death attributable to red meat intake, to address questions on the reliability of the study’s data.The authors of the Global Burden ...
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NewsIMTA welcomes signing of UK-NZ free trade deal
The International Meat Trade Association (IMTA) has responded to the signing of the free trade agreement (FTA) between the UK and New Zealand, stating that the deal will “only serve to strengthen the enduring and historic trade in meat” between the two countries.On Monday, 28th February, International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie ...
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NewsFood industry reacts to UK-NZ trade deal
Trade bodies from across the UK food industry have spoken out about the signing of the free trade agreement (FTA) between the UK and New Zealand, producing a mixed reaction.This follows the news on Monday, 28th February, when International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan signed a UK-New Zealand free trade deal ...
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NewsKantar confirms rising prices are impacting on consumer trends
A fall in supermarket sales as grocery prices reach a new high, with inflation standing at 4.3% in February, has been recorded by Kantar.Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said: “Apart from the start of the pandemic, when we saw grocers cut promotional deals to maintain ...
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NewsFSA publishes first AMR survey of UK retail lamb and turkey
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has released the findings of a UK-wide survey of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in E. coli and Campylobacter bacteria from lamb and turkey meat on UK retail sale.The report presents results of testing for specific AMR in bacteria from meat on retail sale in the UK ...
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NewsBPC calls for fairer post Brexit controls
The British Poultry Council (BPC) have continued to voice concern about “unbalanced” regulations on moving poultry between the UK, EU and NI, calling for “mutually beneficial” sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) controls.Richard Griffiths, chief executive of the British Poultry Council (BPC).In a recent statement BPC said that since Brexit legislation came ...
