All Meat articles – Page 228

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    How to become a polish millionaire

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    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...

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    Lang's beef Tim Lang

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    This week I am in Crete. Before you say lucky man' (indeed I am), be assured that I am locked in a hotel for five days of meetings. A long time to be indoors, but things are stirring once more on the European food scene. The Crete meetings ...

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    Beef: Irish beef likely to make further inroads into UK

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Shipments up to nearly 90% of pre BSE tonnage last year Ireland's relatively low key beef promotion campaigns in the UK since the BSE crisis have puzzled competitors, but it is increasingly clear the sales effort has been more successful than...

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    I fear a chain reaction

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    The threat of a trade war still hovers ominously over the bacon and pork markets. At the risk of inciting the crackpot fringe within British farming to send me more malicious e-mails, we believe serious implications remain for all pigmeat sales...

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    pigmeat

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    MLC fears price gap could trigger a downturn Defying the rule of rising prices Pork and some pigmeat products may be partial exceptions to the rule of rising prices' in 1999, at least in the unpublished opinion of some MLC staff. Milton Keynes...

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    pigmeat

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Price is the dominant mechanic but should not be the only one' Smith hails success of piggies round two Simon Mowbray Bacon producers risk failing to drive volumes if they rely on price promotions alone, a leading industry figure has warned....

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    pigmeat

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    British sector diminishes faster than beef did in response to BSE Clean slaughterings to be halved in five years The MLC's latest pigmeat sector forecast points to persistent price volatility in this country, along with insecure market shares...

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    pigmeat

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Pressure points in the chain appear no obstacle to Lazenby's processor Cranswick showing defies expectations Surging profitability at pork processor Cranswick plc prompted compliments from national press business writers on release of preliminary...

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    PIGMEAT

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Less contraction in national herd than farmers claimed Supply picture looks resilient Further doubt is cast on predictions of a looming shortage of home produced pork by the results of an official pig census showing much less contraction in the...

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    pigmeat

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    O'Kane denies move is response to Tesco Avonmore to buy from just four Tesco pork supplier Avonmore Meats (UK) has long seemed the sleeping giant of the British pigmeat market, but has been quietly flexing its muscles for several months. On Monday...

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    pigmeat

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Sentiment has not turned in favour of British Action will put consumers off British pig producers' campaign against imports will at best prove ineffective and at worst counter-productive, potentially turning food shoppers against pork from all...

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    PIGMEAT

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Mixed picture with slight rise in slaughterings expected Danish herd contracting Production capacity on Denmark's pig farms is contracting, but there is no prospect of anything like the pork supply squeeze under way in the UK. Results of the...

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    pigmeat

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Bacon and ham production down 17% since 1998 Tonnage decline raises questions about demand Bacon and ham production in Great Britain is down 17% since 1998 and the decline would have been steeper in the past year but for increased use of...

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    pigmeat

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Low population density and labour costs make big, efficient new units viable Spain tipped to become major supplier in the EU Spanish suppliers of pork and even of bacon have played minor but significant roles in the UK during the recurrent ...

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    Market watch: Retail meat prices week ending May 6 2000

    2000-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Average price p/kg Change on week Price range BEEF Topside 612 -36 436 - 716 Rump 892 -44 724 - ...

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    Pigmeat: OECD Agricultural Outlook

    2000-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Prices predicted to remain soft Pork buyers worried by the rising market might find consolation in the latest Agricultural Outlook published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. The OECD staff, who have a good...

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    Obituary: Arthur Skelhorn

    2000-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Arthur Skelhorn, MBE, for many years a central figure in the independent sector, and a regular contributor to The Grocer on bacon matters, has died in a Manchester nursing home aged 91. Past president on several occasions of the Northern Council of...

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    Bacon: Room for developments

    2000-05-06T00:00:00Z

    There is a lot of speculation about likely developments at Malton Bacon Factory, which has a planning application for a 4,000 sq m extension. After 12 years as md, Max Hilliard has been promoted to chief executive (see story on page 80), while Neil...

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    The Grocer Focus on Northern Ireland

    2000-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Beef producers: Commitment to mainland surprisingly successful The beef industry might seem to still be in deep crisis but resurgence of sales to the British multiples has been nothing short of spectacular from a supply resource now world class ...

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    BSE: Call for French beef ban slated

    2000-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Conservative Party demands for a ban on imports of French beef and beef products following a surge in the number of BSE cases in France have been rejected by MAFF, the FDF and the NFU. Agriculture minister Nick Brown was urged by his shadow, Tim...