All Meat articles – Page 227
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Lang's Beef: Tim Lang Professor of Food Policy at Thames Val
How should the food industry communicate its message if it thinks new products offer a health gain? Scientists and marketers gathered last week in Finland at the request of VTT, the state funded technology organisation, to ponder just that question....
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Meat demand trends: Canteen sales help volumes but not marg
There is a significant qualitative shift which MLC has illuminated: the proportion of bacon consumed out of the home has risen from a quarter in 1990 to just over a third by the end of the decade. An 80% penetration of bacon in staff catering ...
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BEEF Brussels' label scheme set to cost £50 per head?
Scottish wholesalers warn categorisation means more severe pressure on margins Abattoir operators and meat packers are stepping up their campaign against the proposed EU beef labelling scheme, which some slaughterers claim could in effect add 10%...
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Table Talk Anthony Worral Thompson chef and TV personality
I applaud the Meat and Livestock Commission for introducing the British Meat Quality Standard Mark, but I must criticise them on their advertisements for pork. The advert shows a large white pig with seven suckling piglets in tow, with the...
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United colours of Mmm
Kerry Foods is investing £5m in repositioning its Mattessons brand. New packaging from September will feature the well known Mattessons Mmm' strapline. The packs will be colour coded to signpost the variants cooked meats, smoked pork sausage...
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UK meat and poultry consumption
Poultry consumption in the UK has doubled since the mid 1980s, while volumes of all the other main meat categories have shrunk or remained fairly stable. Some contraction in the beef market was expected long before the BSE crisis, but lamb, pork and...
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Slaughtering: Live exports will only add to buyers' problems
Price query as supply tightens A sharp reduction of the number of steers being slaughtered in Ireland backs up forecasts that the beef supply will tighten, in theory weakening the claims of British producers who accuse the multiples of undermining...
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Bacon: Traders' consternation over second pig advert
Although it is too early to gauge public purchasing reaction to the now infamous MLC generic pigmeat advertising at least one multiple has started to take precautions to conserve bacon business. Tesco has put together POS material telling...
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TOMATOES: I'm all right Jack, but
A new variety of British beef tomato is being sold exclusively through Waitrose. Jack Hawkins, which retails at £2.79/kg, grows to between 65mm and 85mm and ranges in colour from light orange to red. A spokesman for the Tomato Growers'...
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Digging in for a boar war?
Is it possible that the only ones left smiling after the so-called "bacon war" that hit our TV screens this week will be the bank managers of European research companies? Could it be, as the media turns to other issues, that the conflict will...
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business development
DBC Foodservice, formerly known as the Danish Bacon Company, has appointed Chris Todd as sales director. He will be responsible for business development and long term growth opportunities. Todd, 44, was previously with Del Monte Fresh Produce which...
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NEW ZEALAND LAMB: Easter offers in Paris supermarkets fuel o
New Zealand chilled lamb has the French up in arms Chilled lamb imports from New Zealand are causing controversy again. The focus of attention this time is on alleged disruption of the French market rather than the British retail trade, but the new...
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New Zealand lamb: FAVOURED NATION?
One telling indicator of fundamental change across the EU sheepmeat market is the New Zealanders' growing confidence in their relationships with major French buyers. "They're starting to take us seriously, because they know we can deliver," The...
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BMF conference: Requirement to categorise cuts could increas
Cracknell alarm over label costs Hope is fading for a change in the proposed EU beef labelling scheme to avoid a further sharp increase in meat processing and distribution costs. Industry leaders have been warned by MAFF it may be too late to...
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SLAUGHTERING: Rumours of closure prove exaggerated
Capacity reduction in the slaughtering industry remains largely an illusion, despite the constant talk of restructuring. Latest indicators of the persistently intense competition for stock and customers are the continuing operation of a lamb...
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The Grocer Focus on delicatessen & fine foods: Market data
Cooked meats -The total market is worth £1,188m, with prepacked sales accounting for more than 55%. Ham is the biggest sector, accounting for more than 50% of total sales, and increasing 6% in value year on year Taylor Nelson Sofres, 52 w/e April...
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Shouting UK assurance message
Sir; Talk about over-reaction to MLC's latest campaign to highlight the attributes of British pigmeat. The new ad does not specifically attack the Danes, nor does it impugn the product reared in Denmark for the UK, yet the Danish Bacon & Meat...
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Bacon: Signs of a recovery
As well as firmer gammon prices, there are signs that the bacon market is seeing a sustained recovery. "The market is getting tight in the UK," said one trader, "and it may hit a peak soon. But even though there are more pigs coming through from...
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How to become a polish millionaire
Pork and bacon traders excited by the prospect of an eventual surge of cheap supply from the obsolete but restructuring pig industries of Eastern Europe were offered a sobering assessment in Tuesday's Financial Times, which focused on the Polish...