All Meat articles – Page 211
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Congestion and elusive stock add up to week of headaches
Hunt the product was a game giving our shoppers the biggest headache this week. At Asda bacon was on offer but the shelf where it should have been was bare. By a sheer fluke, our shopper spotted a whole stack in a completely different area where...
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Asda impresses at Eastlands and it also comes in cheapest
The new Asda at Eastlands certainly won over our shopper this week. It supplied the cheapest full basket at £37.20 and would have been 20p cheaper if its regular eight-rasher pack of bacon had been stocked. Inside an amazing range of food and non...
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TABLE TALK
Backing Britain seems to be the right thing to do at the moment, especially with the French cancer that is eating into our beef industry. Of all the major high street retailers, Marks and Spencer in my mind conjures up everything British. And yet...
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Dumeco doubles earnings
Leading European meat supplier Dumeco has warned that the entire pork production sector in the Netherlands is faced with increasing overcapacity due to further falls in the number of pigs. Reporting a doubling of pre-tax earnings to 164.4m...
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Bogof's week
The National Farmers' Union gave journalists attending its press conference in London this week a firm dose of motherly love. As we arrived for the mid-morning session, president Ben Gill was on hand with a silver salver of bacon sandwiches. Not a...
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Bites: McNeil Consumer Nutritionals; Kraft Foods' Dairylea Lunchables; Aero Snow
McNeil Consumer Nutritionals is adding a reduced fat olive oil spread to its Benecol portfolio and replacing the cream cheese spreads with lower fat versions. Two pizza variants - ham and cheese and pepperoni and cheese - have joined Kraft Foods'...
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M&S takes top meat prize
Marks and Spencer scooped the top prize at this year's British Meat Awards for its perfect roast lamb'. It walked off with the Product of Excellence award after the product took first prize in the lamb category. The prize for beef product of the...
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When producers claim a proposed official course of action is
Yet it is hard for them to dispute the National Beef Association's call to delay implementing the tightening of the Farm Assured British Beef and Lamb regime to prevent finished cattle becoming scarce and more expensive. The change would require...
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meat marketing
Closer co-operation needed between farmers, processors and retailers More scope to develop English regional brands Fresh initiatives to develop English regional brands of beef have been called for by Kevin Hawkins, Safeway's director of...
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scotch premier
Building the Highland Lamb premium Aberdeenshire based Scotch Premier Meat is now offering lamb under the Highland Lamb brand to complement its well established Scotch Premier branded beef. The move follows the purchase of the Grants of Dornoch...
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Chicken fillets injected with beef and pig proteins
Chicken fillets imported into the Irish Republic from the Netherlands had been injected with beef and pig protein, a probe has established. The Irish Food Safety Authority found animal DNA in 17 out of 30 samples. The fillets had also been...
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Roles for both Scotch and British
Sir; I was interested to read recent articles about branding in the agri-food sector, including a call for an all-Britain brand and concern about fragmentation. There's a great deal of passion in Scotland about the Scotch beef brand, but it's not a...
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BRITISH PORK AND BACON
Fully costed 13-point action plan over five years looks to greater competitiveness BPEX unveils a recovery plan for British pigmeat A recovery strategy for the British pig industry was unveiled by the British Pig Executive last week at the...
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the food chain
Most serious attempt so far to solve supply chain problems Safeway builds regional with Northumbria line Safeway has launched another regional lamb promotion, aiming to match the success of its West Country brand which went into stores last month....
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Forum calls for British appeal to lift UK producers' fortune
Elaine Watson Pig producers have called on retailers to help tackle the crisis in the British pig industry by clearly distinguishing British pork and bacon instore and only buying pigmeat compliant with minimum UK standards. The call was made at a...
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Lazenby's lowers the fat
Sausage producer Cranswick has added a Better Because.. low fat premium pork sausage to its Lazenby's range. On shelf in Sainsbury this week, the newcomer goes into other multiples next month. With less than 3% fat and a minimum of 90% meat, it...
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HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION DATA
Demand for lamb fairly strong; pork disappointing; bacon a star Beef sales over Easter reported as strong February household consumption data from Taylor Nelson Sofres seem awful because most figures for the corresponding period last year...
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PASTA SALAD DAYS AT GINSTERS
Ginsters launched a series of pasta salads. The three new products are based on its top selling sandwich flavours, chargrilled chicken and bacon, double cheese and onion and prawn. Commercial manager Alistair Simons said: "We wanted to extend our...