All Meat articles – Page 181
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Scotland to quit BPEX
Scotland’s pigmeat producers will pull out of BPEX, it has been confirmed.This means all levies paid by Scotland’s pig farmers will now go to Quality Meat Scotland. The decision followed a consultation exercise in which Scotland’s producers...
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Commodities Update: beef, pork, salmon
Corned beef prices risingPrices of corned beef are continuing upward as Brazil wrestles with a weakening currency, the real, against a stronger US dollar.A Brazilian packer said: “Traders believe the industry is making excessive profits....
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Co-op deal for Dungannon
Dungannon Meats Group has won a contract to supply additional fresh beef to the Co-operative Group.The deal will create 30 new jobs involved in added-value work in Dungannon’s Northern Ireland factories.Dungannon has now won £55m of new...
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Legal action threat over pork pie protection bid
Northern Foods has written to Defra threatening it with High Court action for supporting an application to the EU to protect the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie name. The bid for protected geographical indication was made by the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie...
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BPEX ups pressure on imports
Britain’s pork producers have ramped up the pressure in their war on imports of pigmeat.In January, the British Pig Executive (BPEX) began a consumer press advertising drive claiming “two-thirds of imported pork comes from farms that operate...
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Salad’s great unwashed
Making a convenience product less convenient might seem a strange thing to do, but that is what Tesco has done with the introduction of fresh, unwashed bagged salad. In the range are rocket and lambs’ lettuce varieties (rsp: 59p) and two...
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Tractor races to cover OTM
Assured Food Standards, the body that administers the red tractor mark, is racing to adapt the assurance scheme to cover mature beef before the Over Thirty Months scheme ends.AFS believes that to win the backing of retailers for OTM beef...
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Lloyd Maunder gets the chop
Sainsbury is to ditch fresh, retail packed lamb supplier Lloyd Maunder from October – but it is unclear whether this marks a step by the retailer towards single sourcing in the category.Sainsbury refused to say which company would be handed the...
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NBA warns over OTM pessimism
“Loose talk in bars” about delays to the lifting of the Over Thirty Months beef rule will simply encourage processors and retailers to import more meat, the National Beef Association has warned.Vice-chairman Frank Momber said the “Jeremiahs and...
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Argentina beefs up its image
Argentina’s beef bosses are targeting the UK with a £2m promotional drive.The campaign will focus on quality, but also on the way Argentina produces its beef in a bid to dispel myths that South American farmers treat animals and the environment...
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Steak packs for the microwave
A convenience meal concept, to be unveiled next week, could take the market by storm, claim the companies behind it.Packaging supplier Cryovac and ingredients manufacturer RAPS believe the vacuum-packed microwaveable steak could revolutionise...
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Somerfield to stock Quality Standard lamb
A new season lamb range carrying the English Beef and Lamb Executive’s Quality Standard mark will go on sale in Somerfield stores at the end of this month.The So Good-branded range is supplied by West Country producer Lloyd Maunder and is...
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ginsters additions
Ginsters told visitors about the new addition to its sausage roll range. The Cornish Roll adds to the current Sausage Roll and Pork Roaster varieties, and will be shaped like a sausage roll with the filling of a Cornish Pastie. The company hopes...
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Meat imports to UK growing
Both the value and quantity of meat imported into the UK in 2004 were up on a year earlier.The value of beef and veal imports into the UK grew 10% last year, according to the MLC. Imports were worth £607m in 2004, compared with £553m in...
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The Saturday Essay
>>the fairtrade message is getting through – harriet lamb, executive director, fairtrade foundationThe tsunami in the Indian Ocean led to an outpouring of public generosity that astonished many. At the Fairtrade Foundation we...
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Beef prices will rise, but it will be slow going
The price of beef since Christmas is unsustainable in the long term, Richard Cracknell, managing director of ABP, warned livestock producers at a meeting of the ABP-Sainsbury’s Partnership Group at Oswestry.“I would love to see the 250p/kg dw...
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Incredible duo bat for England
Cricketing legends Ian “Beefy” Botham and Allan “Lamby” Lamb have been signed up to promote the English Beef and Lamb Executive’s new Quality Standard mark.Animated versions of the duo will appear in a £4.5m TV and press campaign designed to...
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Dungannon claws back JS business
Dungannon Meats Group has won £25m of business through new contracts, sweetening the pill of the loss of its UK fresh beef contract with Sainsbury last October.The multiple has granted Dungannon an extra £17m of lamb business, a further...
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Redundancies ‘less than feared’ says Dungannon Meats
Dungannon Meats Group has announced 60 job losses following Sainsbury’s decision last October to move to a single supplier for beef products, but it said new contracts won has minimised the scale of redundancies.Dungannon has won over £25m...
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Danish Crown restructure
Danish Crown is to restructure its pork and bacon activities in the UK. A new company, Danish Crown UK, will be established at the current premises of DBI in Manchester on May 1.Danish Crown UK will incorporate the sales of fresh pork currently...