The 2025 Women In Meat Industry Awards campaign is now fully underway and is offering the opportunity for companies and individuals across the meat and food industry to nominate candidates.
The annual Awards is the biggest and most important initiative which recognises the significant and growing contribution that women make across the meat sector.
All winners will be revealed at a 5-star ceremony and dinner later this year, which once again is taking pride of place at the prestigious Royal Lancaster Hotel, London on 21st November.
Impressionist Rory Bremner will co-host at the awards presentation ceremony together with actor, broadcaster and writer Julie Peasgood. Click here to read the story.
Nomination Process
The online nomination process is open until Tuesday 1st July. After this initial deadline the selected finalists will go through to the online voting stage of the awards.
The coveted overall Meat Businesswoman of the Year recipient will be chosen from one of the category winners by a judging panel and recent winners of this top award are:
- 2018: Lisa Hand – Dunbia
- 2019: Lucianne Allen – Aubrey Allen
- 2020: Margaret Boanas – IMTA
- 2021: Lindsay Murphy – Booker
- 2022: Michelle Low – Morrisons Manufacturing / Woodhead Bros
- 2023: Julia Hewerdine – Dunbia
- 2024: Nompilo Sibanda – Pilgrim’s Europe
Editor of Meat Management magazine, Gwen Mostyn, commented: “This is your chance to propose those special people that you consider to be outstanding and worthy of recognition.
“The annual Women In Meat Industry Awards is incredibly popular and is exclusively driven by company or individual nominations and votes, which subsequently highlight individual people who really make a difference.
“With the 2025 campaign now underway, readers of Meat Management and those from the wider industry can nominate individual candidates in a range of categories. You might nominate one person or several, the main thing is to get those names put forward as soon as possible.”
Categories for 2025 are as follows:
- Meat Businesswoman Award – Foodservice (catering butchery sector)
- Meat Businesswoman Award – Manufacturing / Processing
- Meat Businesswoman Award – Craft Butchery
- Meat Businesswoman Award – Poultry
- Meat Businesswoman Award – Trade Body
- Meat Businesswoman Award – Wholesaling
- Meat Businesswoman Award – Livestock Procurement & Sustainability
- Meat Businesswoman Award – Multiple Retailing
- Meat Businesswoman Award – Independent Retailing
- Meat Businesswoman Award – Industry Supplier
- Meat Businesswoman Award – Training & Education
- The Rising Star Award
- Meat Businesswoman of the Year Award
If you have a colleague, manager, supplier, chief executive, butcher or if you know anyone you’d like to see acknowledged for their contribution, then nominate them now online here: www.womeninmeatawards.com.
To take advantage of an early bird discount on table bookings for the Awards ceremony on 21st November click here.
Thank you to the Women In Meat Industry Awards Partners 2025:
