All Meat articles – Page 221
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Lamb: New Zealand calls a halt to promotions in the UK
NZ suppliers careful not to be seen exploiting home producers' misfortunes New Zealand lamb suppliers have halted promotion in the UK, a decision highlighting the conflicting pressures on the market here. "We've pulled our consumer advertising, on...
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Island of Ireland: meat
an editorial supplement to The Grocer Natural complement The position of Ireland is not simply one of an external supplier to the UK. Its companies make up a processing and trading bloc that dominates the UK beef industry. Mike Ingham reports...
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Beef: Multiples stand by Brits
Farmers moaned about dumping but imports fell; secondary market will feel pressure BSE panic on the continent has certainly sent ripples through the British beef market, but it is increasingly clear the weakening of prices in some corners of the...
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Pigmeat: Foot and mouth piles on the illness misery
Hoped for rebound in breeding and slaughter numbers stymied Foot and mouth disease confirmed by MAFF in southern England on Tuesday is the latest and potentially the most devastating in a series of livestock illness outbreaks disrupting UK pork and...
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MLC Marketing News
produced for the Meat and Livestock Commission by The Grocer Oscar Mayer's British beef success story Oscar Mayer is Sainsbury's largest chilled ready meals supplier, producing a million meals a week for the retailer. It is an important part of...
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Unappealing antics
When bacon sellers put on a show of international bonhomie at the Provision Trade Federation annual dinner on Tuesday, behind the polite smiles will be a deep-seated feeling of anger and frustration. For as overseas sellers sit down with their UK...
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Retail price spreads: Retailers are backing British farmers
Hints of a weakening in consumer demand for beef and perhaps even for pork but more evidence of surprisingly resilient trade in the bacon and lamb categories are the main features of MLC analyst Tony Fowler's latest farm to retail price spread...
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Beef: Irish fear continent will tempt UK supermarkets
Will multiples be unwilling or unable to maintain two tier market? From Ireland come warnings of impending trouble in the British mainstream retail beef trade as a result of the continental BSE crisis and its effects on trade flows and official...
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Beef: BSP blow from Brussels
Detailed changes to cattle aid regime seem likely to affect UK disproportionately Price and supply prospects in the already confused British beef market were further clouded on Tuesday night after European Commission officials met in Strasbourg and...
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Profile: Kurt Bettin, CMA Central Marketing Organisation o
Accidental exile Kurt Bettin has spent 32 years masterminding the CMA's progress but now, as he tells Helen Gregory, Germany beckons A resident of this country for 32 years, German-born Kurt Bettin declares a fondness for Cheddar, bacon and...
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Northern Ireland: Tesco exclusive Angus deal
Foyle Meats has launched a range of Northern Irish Quality Assured Aberdeen Angus beef in selected Tesco Northern Ireland stores. The launch has been backed by cookery roadshows organised by the MLC. Foyle Meats producer club is supplying the beef...
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Beef: German meat unlikely to tempt UK multiples
Sides and boxes of German bull beef are now circulating in the British wholesale trade at prices about 40% lower than the supermarkets are paying for home produced steer and heifer meat. Some of the product from Germany is visible on Smithfield...
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PORK AND BACON: German crisis sends pork price into a spin
Fallout from BSE could signal long term depression for the entire meat sector British retailers and processors can probably expect more imported pork bargains following a shakeout of pig prices in Germany, which is by far the biggest EU market....
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irish food board cannot be so certain of its beef claims
Sir; I note the Irish Food Board's description of National Beef Association claims that around 15 per cent of beef imports from the Republic last year was almost certainly taken from cattle over 30 months old as "nonsense" (The Grocer, January 20,...
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Beef: Multiples vindicated as board blasts nonsense'
NBA claims more than 15,000 tonnes of illegal beef sold in UK last year Allegations of illegal trading in imported beef from cattle aged over 30 months are at the centre of a new dispute between supermarkets and militant producers, and this time...
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Ireland: Fruit and veg is sold too cheap'
A fresh confrontation is looming in the Irish Republic between food producers and multiples over the latest price war initiated by Tesco. After a battle over cut-price milk (which they lost) and over frozen New Zealand lamb (which they won), Irish...
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Intervention: New beef mountain rising
Brussels has begun building a new intervention beef mountain. But first purchases prompted by BSE on the continent have totalled only 12,000 tonnes, mostly in France and Germany. The stockpile will not match the previous mountain in size as...
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Beef: Buyers facing end of cheap Irish supplies?
Irish beef is proving less of a bonanza for British retailers than their critics among home producers believe, as cattle markets in the Republic have stabilised quickly after the BSE crisis on the continent. Farming lobbyists led by the National...
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Canned meat: Stewed steak out of stock
Erratic shipments from Brazil caused by port strikes and shipping diversions have resulted in serious out of stock positions of both hot packs and canned Beef. Hardest hit is stewed steak which was scheduled to arrive in time for post Christmas...
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Not so dim sales
The Meat and Livestock Commission has reported a rise in sales on the back of its advertising campaign fronted by Harry Enfield's character Tim Nice But Dim. The MLC said during the autumn (while the ad was on air) that total beef sales rose by...