Meat news – Page 13
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Fraud-linked meat supplier Loscoe Chilled Foods placed into administration
The supplier was linked a fortnight ago to a National Food Crime Unit probe into the passing off of imported beef as British
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Heck enters bacon market with no-added nitrite range
The Yorkshire-based sausage and burger brand rolls out its unsmoked and smoked British back bacon rasher six-pack on 3 April
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Media Bites 30 March: Asda, Tesco, pork scandal
Annual results from Asda make headlines this morning as the supermarket’s profits slide in first full year of Issa brothers’ ownership.
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Troubled Farmison seeks buyer or cash injection
The private equity owner of premium online meat retailer Farmison is seeking a buyer or new financing for the lossmaking business
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Endless acquires Smithfield Murray to combine with Yorkshire Premier Meat
Smithfield Murray has been snapped up by Endless to bring the poultry processor together with the private equity firm’s other protein business, Yorkshire Premier Meat.
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Meat-free growth tailing off as retailers shrink ranges
The number of meat alternative lines in the traditional big four and Waitrose fell 10.9% during the six months to 20 March
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Gressingham Foods invests in new packaging to reduce carbon footprint
The new packaging has been developed with Coveris and Ravenwood and allows the brand to save over 24 tonnes of waste material a year
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Pilgrim’s Food Masters threatening workers with ‘savage’ fire and rehire policy, says GMB
The union has over 1,000 members at Pilgrim’s, all of whom have been hit with the fire and rehire threat
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Exiting food tsar Dimbleby launches new campaign to get Brits to eat less meat
The National Food Strategy author told The Grocer he has entered a partnership with advertising giant M&C Saatchi
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Meat Business Women study to track gender equality across meat industry
The research will track the number of women working in the meat industry globally, following a 2020 report that found women made up only 36% of the workforce
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Loscoe Chilled Foods confirms it is part of beef fraud investigation
The supplier stressed the incident was isolated with ’no suggestion that any other customers are affected’
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Dunbia picks up Jasper family lamb abattoir in Cornwall
Red meat processor Dunbia has expanded its West Country presence with the acquisition of a lamb processing site in Cornwall
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Booths was retailer that sold beef linked to fraud case
The northern supermarket chain has stressed it is not under investigation by the National Food Crime Unit
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Food fraud ‘alive and well’ as news of beef fraud probe emerges
The FSA’s National Food Crime Unit is investigating a case where a supplier passed off foreign sliced beef as British in one (unnamed) major supermarket
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England loses one-fifth of female breeding pig herd
The latest figures were 25% below the 317,000 head recorded in 2020, which is ‘significant’ for production
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Asda launches 150 new product lines for Ramadan
The supermarket will also be launching dedicated Ramadan aisles in 150 stores
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Livestock bodies raise further doubts over Lancet meat data linking consumption to deaths
AHDB, the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers and the British Meat Processors Association have called on The Lancet to withdraw the data in question
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Pilgrim’s adds high-speed lines to Bodmin site in £1.8m investment
The investment forms part of the pork producer’s strategy to maximise operational capacity and strengthen the sustainability of its sites
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Organic sales growing despite cost of living pressures
Total organic sales rose by 1.6% to £3.1bn last year despite ‘unprecedented challenges’ for businesses and consumers
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Farmison pulls £2m crowdfunder as part of strategic rethink
DTC butcher Farmison has pulled a £2m crowdfunding raise as it puts the brakes on ambitious growth plans amid the challenging macroeconomic climate of squeezed consumer spending and surging costs.