All Meat articles – Page 229
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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...
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Lang's beef Tim Lang
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
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
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...