All Meat articles – Page 229
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MLC cattle market outlook Imports set to decline this year
Forecast may prove useful in defusing protests Imports of beef are likely to decline slightly this year, after a sharp increase in 1999, according to the latest edition of the MLC's quarterly Cattle Market Outlook. This published forecast may...
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MLC PIGS MARKET OUTLOOK Squeeze tighter than expected
Pork production likely to fall again next year Contraction of UK pigmeat production is turning into a severe structural adjustment rather than merely an unusually painful cyclical output swing as seemed likely just a few months ago. "Despite the...
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OPINION: The absurd and the illegal
The news that exports of French agricultural products to Britain rose last year despite the strength of public opinion against France's refusal to lift the UK beef exports ban will probably provoke wide Gallic smiles down the Champs Elysées....
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Compulsory beef labels set to arrive in autumn
EU agriculture ministers have voted to introduce compulsory labelling for beef from September 1 2000 two years ahead of the original date. MAFF minister of state Joyce Quin welcomed the decision but she said the UK already has a beef monitoring...
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Lamb: Closure of ABP's Bathgate plant postponed
Closure of one of the major UK lamb killing and packing plants, the Anglo Beef Processors Bathgate abattoir in southern Scotland, has been postponed. But Irish-owned ABP dismissed initial rumours of a management buyout or sale. Bathgate had been...
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Market watch: retail meat prices
Retail meat prices week ending July 29 2000 Average price p/kg Change on week Price range BEEF Topside 605 -1 491 - 719 ...
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More strain on home market
More pressure on the lamb market appears likely as a new entrant into the sheepmeat export trade begins establishing a customer base on the continent. Producer controlled Farmers Fresh announced on Monday it had struck a deal with Claude...
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bacon report
Quiet August holiday The latest bacon factory returns show a drop in August output of nearly 1,000t, year on year to 15,100t. The small drop in pigmeat imports for UK curing down 400t yoy to 3,500t more a marker of the continental holiday...
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bacon report
Dutch get back into action Shipments of Dutch Royal Crest back bacon to the UK have topped the 100,000 tonne mark again this year. The total to the end of week 49 was 100,500t, with an estimated tonnage for week 50 of some 2,195t. With this week...
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Bacon report
Malton closes Motcombe Malton Foods has closed its Motcombe site, which it bought from Case & Sons in June. The Unigate subsidiary is to concentrate activities at Wiveliscombe, near Taunton. Slaughtering and cutting will be transferred to...
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Meat prices
retail meat prices week ending October 31 1998 (p/kg) Average price Change on week Price range BEEF Topside 618 11 520 - 716 Rump ...
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Malton to close Ahoghill
Unigate arm Malton Foods has announced the closure of its Ahoghill butchery and curing plant in early June. The previously announced closure of its bacon slicing and packing facility at Enniskillen has come forward to March 10. Some 300 jobs are at...
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Public punch-ups don't help
We've said it before, but it's worth repeating. A public punch-up between the major bacon suppliers will do nothing for consumer confidence and, in the long run, everyone will suffer. So it was encouraging, at the Danes' annual bash last weekend,...
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Dull' presentation of bacon blasted by DMB
Retailers came under fire from the Dutch Meat Board this week for "not communicating positive images of the product instore." The allegation came in the DMB's annual market review which declared: "For too long, the retailer has largely ignored the...
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welcome beef ally
The UK beef industry has some unexpected friends: Isabelle Guillot d'Hauterives is a French vegetarian who markets her partner's Highland beef. This particular shaggy cattle success story started in a Perth farmers' market, where their range of...
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danish bacon goes down under
After years of accelerating consolidation in the Danish pig industry, just three producer co-ops remain: the giant Danish Crown, mid-range Steff Houlberg; and small Jutland specialist Tican. "We can respond rapidly to changes in the market," md Ove...
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Deal excites new interest in Malton
Clive Beddall Speculation that the Danes were preparing to make Unigate "an offer it can't refuse" for its Malton Bacon Co subsidiary was sweeping the European pigmeat sector as The Grocer went to press. Suggestions that the "jewel in the crown of...
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In a stew over shelved British beef
Sir; I wish to take umbrage about a story on beef exports to Holland (The Grocer, January 15, p14). The fourth paragraph refers to "the fight to return British beef to supermarket shelves on the continent". This phrase crops up in nearly every...
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Motoring ahead
What's the story behind Tesco's rising interest in forecourt stores? Camilla Palmer reports The race to capture consumers while they fill up their cars with fuel, or snap up a paper, chocolate bar and a pork pie, has suddenly got faster with the...