All Meat articles – Page 214
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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...
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Angry Gill fears beef ban could run indefinitely
The National Farmers' Union has warned there is no way of knowing how long the French government may be able to spin out its illegal ban on British beef. As UK farmers' anger mounts over the illegal ban, NFU president Ben Gill said that it could...
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Consumers flocking to lamb at pork's expense
Safeway turned its Woking store café into a fine-dining restaurant for a night as part of a promotion for lamb. Supplier HM Bennett and Safeway management said they were pleased with customer response to the event. HM Bennett senior sales manager...
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Industry in uproar over plans to tighten up Scotch beef labe
Calls for a stricter definition of Scotch beef have been attacked by slaughterers who claim any tightening up of the existing rules would lead to severe disruption of the meat market and plant closures. Their angry response came after Scottish...
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Time for a generic sizzle?
Consumer groups wax lyrical about it, vegetarians secretly scoff loads of it and it's often called the backbone of the grocery trade. Can there ever have been a product with as much going for it as bacon? Yet listening to the folk who celebrated...
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danske slagterier conference
Pledge to step up campaign to contemporise and modernise Danes determined to keep bacon special' Clive Beddall Copenhagen Buoyed by increased sales to Britain, upbeat Danish bacon producers fired another "whacky" marketing salvo this week ...
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regional branding
Celtic Pride hits shelves The Celtic Pride Welsh Lamb Sausage went on sale at Tesco and Sainsbury stores across Wales and the south west following pioneering deals struck by Wales' leading livestock co-operative The Welsh Meat Company. Just two...
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Denmark's minister for food reveals an appetite for GMOs
Clive Beddall Copenhagen GM food promoters have a high profile European ally in the shape of the next president of the EU farm council, Danish food minister Mariann Fischer Boel. In an exclusive interview during the Danish bacon industry's annual...
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A new slice of PARMA hassle
The European Court of Justice may put a stop to Parma ham being sliced at supermarket deli counters in a landmark case involving Asda. Asda, which sells deli Parma at 160 stores, is accused of breaking an Italian law which says that Parma ham...