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NewsQuality Meat Scotland lamb campaign lifts retail demand by 38%
Retail sales of Scottish-origin lamb in Scotland enjoyed a boost during a recent Scotch Lamb PGI marketing campaign undertaken by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), compared with the same period last year.Figures from Kantar Worldpanel (12-week data to 5th November 2017) have shown that sales of Scottish-origin lamb in the country ...
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NewsIan Mackway to join Yandell team
Ian Mackway, who retired as general manager of food ingredients company Raps UK earlier this year, is to join the Yandell Publishing team in January as its Awards Ambassador.Ian Mackway will join Yandell Publishing in January as its Awards Ambassador.Ian will be liaising with retailers, manufacturers and foodservice to ensure ...
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NewsAnimal sentience to be recognised in UK law
The Government has published a draft bill which sets out that the Government “must have regard to the welfare needs of animals as sentient beings in formulating and implementing government policy”.The new bill – Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) – will also increase the maximum prison sentence for ...
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NewsFestive shopping and inflation boost supermarkets
Supermarket sales have increased in value by 3.1% year on year, due to Christmas being just around the corner and grocery inflation, which now stands at its highest level since 2013, at 3.6%.According to Kantar Worldpanel, the biggest four grocers (Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons) saw collective growth of 1.9% ...
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NewsFood Standards Agency launches cutting tools disinfection consultation
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched a consultation seeking views on the authorisation of the use of alternative systems for the disinfection of cutting tools in slaughterhouses, cutting plants and approved game handling establishments (AGHEs).Alternative disinfection techniques, such as Ultra Violet (UV) cleaning cabinets, are “slowly coming onto the ...
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NewsMeat 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 ...
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NewsDevro chief executive to step down
Sausage casings manufacturer Devro has announced that Peter Page is to step down from his role as chief executive, after ten years with the group.Page has agreed with the board to leave his role after the group’s 2017 full year results are announced on 27th February.He will be succeeded by ...
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NewsIndependent butchers winning shoppers this Christmas
Meat is topping the bill of items that Christmas shoppers would be open to pre-order this festive period, with 37% of them stating they were likely to buy items from independent butchers.According to YouGov research conducted for digital and customer experience agency Wunderman, although 50% of shoppers surveyed claimed they ...
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NewsSausage brands ‘set the record straight’ following salt report
Major manufacturers and retailers have defended their sausages, emphasising the variety of different sausages on offer and clear ingredients labelling, following research by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH).CASH claims to have found “excessively high amounts of salt” in sausages offered by Richmond, Heck, Iceland, Asda and Sainsbury’s. However ...
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NewsCompetition and Markets Authority clears Faccenda/Cargill joint venture
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved a proposed joint venture by Faccenda Foods and Cargill, with the companies anticipating they will be operating as a “standalone joint venture by end of January 2018”.The deal will create a food company focused on chicken, turkey and duck, providing a ...
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NewsMeat industry reacts with caution to Brexit agreement
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, has agreed on a deal with the European Commission (EC) over the issues of EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU and Northern Ireland, allowing negotiations to move to the next phase.Announcing the deal, the European Commission’s president, Jean-Claude Juncker, noted ...
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NewsFaccenda marks donating quarter of a million meals to charity
Faccenda has provided a quarter of a million meals worth of chicken to food redistribution charity FareShare, as the two celebrated the second anniversary of their partnership.The partnership has seen the poultry company donate one tonne of chicken every week from its Telford site to the charity’s West Midlands regional ...
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NewsComment: The issue with Authorised Economic Operator accreditation
Katie Doherty, the policy director at the International Meat Trades Association, is weighing in on the debate around Authorised Economic Operator status and whether it could assist post-Brexit trade with the EU.IMTA's Katie Doherty.As the December European Council meeting looms, UECBV (the European Meat & Livestock Trading Union) has launched ...
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NewsMajor meat players among signatories to Courtauld Commitment 2025
Wrap has announced the names of 24 new signatories to the Courtauld Commitment 2025 (Courtauld 2025), including the British Meat Processors Association, Dawn Meats, ABP Food Group and Scotland Food and Drink.They are joining 156 organisations working collaboratively through Courtauld 2025 to cut by one fifth the resources needed to ...
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NewsUK ‘will not compete through a race to the bottom’, says Gove
Defra Secretary of State Michael Gove highlighted his desire to ensure that “there is no compromise” to the poultry sector’s high animal welfare and environmental standards during the British Poultry Council’s (BPC) annual awards.Addressing the gathering at the House of Commons, Gove described the poultry sector as a “real food ...
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NewsBoparan profits take hit in first quarter
Boparan Holdings, the parent company for 2 Sisters Food Group, has seen its operating profit drop by 57.6% at £8.4 million in its first quarter results for 2017-18.The drop is thought to be due to the temporary suspension of operations at 2 Sisters Food Group’s poultry cutting plant (Site D) ...
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NewsWorshipful Company of Butchers host Boar’s Head Ceremony
The Worshipful Company of Butchers’ annual Boar's Head Ceremony took place on 5th December in the City of London.Roger Kelsey, Graham Yandell, Rob Yandell and Bill Jermey bearing the boar's head for the WCB Boar's Head Ceremony.The event is held every winter and sees members of the court and livery ...
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NewsKepak Group acquires Moy Park Dublin plant
Kepak Group (Kepak) has announced that it is to acquire the Moy Park Poppintree facility in Ballymun, Dublin, with the acquisition expected to be completed by the end of December.The investment is Kepak Group’s fourth acquisition this year, following the JV investment in Greene Farm Fine Foods in Westmeath, and ...
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NewsDefra appoints new chief veterinary officer
Nigel Gibbens is stepping down at the end of February 2018, having served as chief veterinary officer (CVO) for ten years, and will be replaced by Christine Middlemiss.Middlemiss will join Defra from her current high profile position in Australia, where she has been working as the CVO in New South ...
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NewsAmazonFresh partners with family butcher for festive meat offering
Online retail giant Amazon has teamed up with one of London’s oldest butchers, C.Lidgate, to offer consumers ‘Golden Geese’ and ‘Medieval Mince Pies’.C.Lidgate butchers and AmazonFresh have launched a Golden Goose for Christmas 2017. Photo: Simon Jacobs.By working with fifth-generation family butcher’s shop C.Lidgate in Holland Park, AmazonFresh is now ...
