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Whole birds switch hits jobs at 2 Sisters
A consumer trend for buying more whole chicken has been blamed by 2 Sisters for a restructure that could leave 95 staff out of work.
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World News 13/6/09
TURKEY: Tesco has promoted Paul Ritchie to CEO of its Turkey business Kipa. Ritchie currently runs Tesco's UK Express stores and will take up his new role in August. He replaces Simon King, who has left the business, and in his new role will...
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Halliwell named as new Bernard Matthews MD
Bernard Matthews Farms has named Jeff Halliwell as the company's new UK managing director. He joins from dairy co-operative First Milk, where he was managing director of First Milk Cheese Company, the UK's largest cheese manufacturing...
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Birds Eye puts sizzle into midweek meals with new Chargrills
A Tex-Mex-inspired relaunch of Birds Eye's Chicken Chargrills range, including a collaboration with Dragons' Den star Levi Roots, aims to spice up midweek family meals.The five-strong range, which hits shelves next week, includes two new...
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Booker adds chilled lines to Euro Shopper
Booker has launched its first Euro Shopper chilled range - five products all price marked at £1.The range, which includes two cheeses, bacon, honey roast ham and turkey, would offer retailers 30% profit on return, said director of retail...
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Matthews' Drummers go Southern-fried
Bernard Matthews Farms has added a Southern-fried variant to its Golden Drummer range.The turkey specialist said it was responding to data showing that Southern-fried was the second-most popular flavour in frozen breaded products and worth...
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Schwartz adverts to push health benefits of herbs and spices
Schwartz is combining the launch of a new range of recipe mixes with an advertising campaign highlighting the antioxidant effects of herbs and spices. The 14-strong Flavourfuls range, which includes Cajun chicken and moussaka variants, is...
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Stakeholders meet to debate welfare clarity
The poultry industry is debating how to better communicate the diverse range of chicken production standards to consumers. Stakeholders from across the industry met at a Poultry Welfare Forum last month to thrash out details of how the...
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Bernard Matthews hit by new avian flu alarm
The avian flu virus has been detected on two Bernard Matthews farms, but consumers have been reassured there is no danger to human health.
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NewsTesco under fire for misleading labelling of chicken
Tesco has been slammed for its "misleading" labelling of chicken following a consumer poll. More than 10,000 people voted in a Chicken Out! poll on whether labelling of standard own-label chickens sold in Tesco, Asda, Iceland, Morrisons and...
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NewsCritical Eye... on Huge Furry and Saint Jamie
This week we were 'treated' to a Great British Food Fight double bill as Huge Furry Wittering-balls and Saint Jamie entered the ring to whip up public outrage over the evils of cheap chicken and bacon. I felt a sense of déjà vu as I watched...
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Anyone for a packet of Walkers Cajun Squirrel?
Cajun Squirrel, Chilli & Chocolate, Crispy Duck & Hoi Sin and Onion Bhaji are some of the more unusual crisp flavours to be shortlisted in the Walkers Do Us A Flavour competition, which was announced this week.Six flavours in total have been...
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Parkie talks turkey in M&S's latest ad
Michael Parkinson has become the latest celebrity to do a voiceover for a Marks & Spencer TV food ad in the post-Dervla Kirwan era.In the final weekend before Christmas, M&S is set to add to its range of promotions, which last week included...
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NFU song is a definite turkey
Pop came a step closer to finally eating itself this week with the news that the NFU has penned a festive song - The 12 Foods of Christmas. The song is a revisionist cover of the classic about five gold rings and a bunch of other things you...
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Walkers puts its crisps in a festive mood
Festive crisps are back with the return of Walkers Christmas mixed packs. The multipacks of six (rsp £1.55) contain three flavours: Turkey & Stuffing, Ham & Mustard and Cheese & Pickle, and the former will also come in a 40g Big Eat bag....
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Duck on the menu at M&S this Christmas
Duck producer Cherry Valley has secured a deal to supply six new free-range prepared duck products to Marks & Spencer. The Lincolnshire-based company, which is the UK’s largest duck manufacturer and produces eight million ducks a year, has begun...
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Food expert tries to broaden kids’ tastes with ethnic range
Children’s food expert Annabel Karmel has launched World Foods multi-ethnic ready meals in an attempt to encourage children aged four and up to eat more exotic dishes. The new range, which includes chicken tikka masala & rice and salmon...
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Investor group in 11th-hour Cappoquin deal
Beleaguered Irish poultry processor Cappoquin Chickens has been hauled out of liquidation in an 11th- hour buyout by an Anglo-Irish group of investors. Cappoquin, which looked certain to close last month following the collapse of takeover talks,...
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Eat their words
Heston Blumenthal, the Fat Duck head famed for his clever but vile-sounding recipes, has a cookbook out. The 12lb tome costs just £100 and allows you to shake off those credit-crunch blues by whipping up your very own batch of snail porridge with...
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Cappoquin falls victim to cheap imported chicken
One of the Irish Republic’s largest poultry businesses, Cappoquin Chickens, is to close with 200 job losses. Talks to secure a buy-out of the plant, which would have involved a substantial investment by Derby Poultry, a British company, collapsed...