All Meat articles – Page 213
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Pork Farms/Kerry set to link
A major new force in direct sales of chilled and snacking products to the convenience sector could be created through the merger of the van sales operations of Pork Farms Bowyers and Kerry Foods. Pork Farms parent Northern Foods and Kerry Foods...
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What's in store?
This year retailers have taken to heart the criticism being hurled at their bacon fixtures and have been busily overhauling them. Waitrose says it has been improved by continual rationalisation and regeneration of the product mix. Its best sellers...
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an underpinning of instinctive support
Danish bacon has a strong tradition of marketing its brand in the UK. And next year it looks set to return to the small screen with a new campaign that will build on its long history of tongue-in-cheek marketing. John Howard, marketing director of...
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the commodity:
a popular item Bacon at one time seemed headed for the commodity doldrums, so why are consumers now showing such enthusiasm asks Mike Ingham Foot and mouth has made it a traumatic year in the meat and livestock markets. But trends can be spotted...
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So why did you buy that?
Shoppers walking through the meat aisles of their local super-markets in September may have been bemused to find themselves being asked why they bought what they did from the bacon fixture. They were being quizzed as part of a major instore...
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Britain: TIME TO CUT BACK
With its acquisition of Malton, Grampian becomes the dominant supplier of bacon in the UK says Elaine Watson Two years ago the jewel in the crown of the British bacon industry was driving growth at parent company Unigate and clocking up annual...
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AN AMBITIOUS FLAGSHIP
Steady expansion has been the game plan of the Flagship Foods Group. It consists of Roach Foods, its bacon and cooked meat business, pigmeat processor Dalehead Foods and British Quality Pigs, and its latest buy, foodservice company Wicketts...
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The total bacon market is valued at £979m in the latest year
However this inflation is solely due to price (up 10% year on year) since March 2001, a result of FMD. Although the buyer base remains very high, frequency has been affected and bacon is now purchased just over once every three weeks. Bacon...
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meat imports
Beef imports increased but less sharply than some forecasters predicted Less upheaval in trade than had been feared The MLC's latest summary of Customs and Intrastat data offers a useful indication of how the market here is settling down after...
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Farm prices plea rebuffed
Farmers in the Irish Republic are seeking a "substantial rise" in the prices consumers pay for milk and beef, with the increases passed directly to them. They claim they can no longer continue to produce food at current prices, which they say have...
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Dutch bacon to get boost from round two of piggy smashing
Bacon fans will have a chance to smash their way to a cool million pounds next year in a national promotion being run by the Dutch Meat Board. Dubbed smash the million pound piggy', the on-pack promotion is a repeat of a hugely successful...
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Safeway has announced plans to become the first retailer to
As part of Safeway's support for local sourcing, customers in the north east of England will be able to buy branded Northumbrian lamb from this week. Northumbria was particularly badly hit by foot and mouth. By sourcing Northumberland lamb...
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Partners have major role in turnaround
Discount chain Kwik Save has launched it first national promotion of meat and fresh produce. Three deals are featured in the chain's latest leaflets and press ads. Consumers in England and Wales are being offered bone-in legs of pork for 99p/lb,...
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Danish to return to TV advertising with fun, lighthearted'
Danish bacon will be back on the box next spring with its first TV campaign for more than two years. The Danish Bacon & Meat Council said the decision to return to the small screen had been taken as TV rates were expected to be more fluid next...
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Danish to return to TV advertising with fun, lighthearted'
Danish bacon will be back on the box next spring with its first TV campaign for more than two years. The Danish Bacon & Meat Council said the decision to return to the small screen had been taken as TV rates were expected to be more fluid next...
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Reduced purchase volumes not being offset by increases in ex
What is wrong with retail pork market? Foot and mouth disease is merely the latest in a series of traumas for the pig industry. Swine fever, the BSE scare on the continent, breeding herd contraction in this country due to financial pressure on...