All Meat articles – Page 226
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New strategy from MMP
Launch of a branded beef cuts range by Midland Meat Packers demonstrates how the industry has been forced to reinvent itself since BSE. Most of Britain's beef export trade was in cow carcasses, not meat from prime cattle for continental...
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BRITISH PORK PROMOTION CAMPAIGN: Finding solace in self delu
Helping consumers forget the negative side' As tempers cool in the pork and bacon trades after the Meat and Livestock Commission's highly controversial advertisements, it is becoming clear the campaign was designed at least in part to tackle a...
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Ian Hughes is DMB's loss and Key Country Foods' gain
Ian Hughes is to leave the Dutch Meat Board where he has been trade marketing controller. However, Hughes will remain within the bacon and pigmeat industry when he takes on his new position as group marketing director at Key Country Foods Ltd....
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Bacon: Danish anger at organic blocks'
There is anger among Continental bacon and ham exporters that the standards set by British organic accreditation bodies are being used as a blocking strategy to prevent full market access. Some have criticised "holier than thou" attitudes. The Soil...
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manufacturing beef
Producers and processors frustrated by loss of cheap high quality beef from trade Phasing out of OTMS set for delay by feed débâcle Scarcity of cheap cow beef for meat product manufacturing has long caused resentment in some corners of the...
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HOUSEHOLD DEMAND FOR BEEF
June heatwave boosted steak trade, but total beef sales were flat Retail data show market narrow and volatile Britain's adoption of barbecue culture has produced the predictable surge in steak sales, weather permitting, but latest household...
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Danepak goes organic
Danepak is making its debut in organics with a new three strong prepacked bacon range due on shelf in the autumn. The range comprises smoked and unsmoked back bacon (both 220g; rsp £3.29) and unsmoked streaky (170g; rsp £2.29). Danepak marketing...
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Prepared salads: English learn French secrets
Florette looking forward to continued 15% growth English growers are learning the secrets of producing a new range of speciality salads such as escarole, frisee and lambs lettuce for Soleco, France's largest specialist producer which has opened its...
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Bacon: Joint sales are up 16% in value
A steady tightening of the pig supply in the UK and on the continent will continue to push up asking prices to curers. But after more than two years of cheap rashers, it remains to be seen how multiple buyers will react to requests for any increase...
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Table talk: Antony Worrall Thompson chef and TV personality
Up at the Royal Show to dish out the Daily Express Farming Awards this week, I was confronted by some angry farmers over the new British Farm Standard tracor logo. They were upset they had found New Zealand lamb with this logo on one of the...
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Meat: Relief as Brussels relaxes labelling rules
Some relief from the pressure of increasing regulatory cost in the beef market appears possible following a vote by the European Parliament to relax new labelling rules due to become EU law from September 1. Processors and producers, with support...
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Profile: Danish Bacon and Meat Council's marketing director
Frying pans feels the heat Defending Danish bacon is a serious business these days. But John Howard is keeping his sense of fun He's a Cambridge classics scholar, former Ampleforth student, and has many other hallmarks of a man who is British to...
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Beef: Scotbeef challenge
M&S supplier Scotbeef, a pioneer of traceability and the producer club concept, has opened a new £7m abattoir at Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire. With capacity of 2,000 head weekly, it challenges Northampton based Midland Meat Packers as the biggest...
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The threat to consensus
Getting a consensus among stakeholders within UK Food plc is nearly as hard as persuading the MLC to promote Danish bacon. So reformers like Nick Brown, Ben Gill, Joanne Denney, Patrick Holden, Mike Mackenzie and Co should only allow themselves a...
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Beef: Don't help French! Gill
NFU president Ben Gill has slammed the promotion of French markets in Britain as "indefensible" while the country maintains its illegal ban on British beef. And Gill has also questioned the right of the French government to hold the presidency of...
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Pigmeat: Danepak boost for fresh pork
Runaway success of Pork Perfection With market research data persistently showing the retail demand trend for fresh pork at best flat, suppliers and multiples are looking for product ideas to rejuvenate this commodity sector as the Bernard…
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DUBLIN TAKES LIBYA SERIOUSLY
Every week brings another sign of tightening supply in the Irish beef industry, the latest indicator being a report of Libya proposing to resume imports. Similar stories have been heard before, and proved untrue, but the latest is being taken...
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Indefensible encouragement
It should be no surprise on either side of the Channel that Britain's beleaguered farmers are again turning up the heat under France's illegal ban on British beef imports. For, despite the political comings and goings, on July 1 we'll be treated to...
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The King with a sense of humour
Bestfoods is nudging the dynamic instant hot snacks category nearer to meals with the launch of King Pot Noodle size on July 17. The new packs are 400g rather than 300g, in chicken and mushroom, and beef and tomato flavours. Bestfoods is backing...
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Meat demand trends: British bacon output in slow, sustained
Between a fifth and a quarter of all UK pigmeat production goes into British bacon but total self-sufficiency is ruled out by MLC economist Sue Fisher in the June issue of Meat Demand Trends. It is the first industry survey to have been...