Customers at Gerald David, the West Country butchers, are voting for the company’s favourite butcher as part of National Butchers Week.

Systems Integration are inviting food processing businesses to ‘recalibrate’ their profitability with the launch of ‘integreater’ at Foodex this month (March).

Premium sausage brand debbie & andrew’s has announced it has increased its market position, as well as grown the category and increased distribution.

London butcher chain the Ginger Pig is to open a fifth site in London.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) Board has agreed for the full implementation of a single approach to front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labelling after a meeting yesterday (Wednesday).

Five London butchers have been chosen as unmissable meat venues in the capital, “away from the vac-packed, anonymous experience of shopping in supermarkets”, according to Time Out.

Minister for Public Health Gillian Merron has formally announced that the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) will be dissolved and brought into a new Food Standards Agency (FSA) Operations Group.

Some of the top young butchers in the UK are gearing up for National Butchers’ Week, which is now only four days away.

Western Brand Poultry Products NI is to launch a six-strong range of frozen chicken products at the end of March.

Tesco executive director Lucy Neville-Rolfe has criticised the standard of school-leavers coming into the industry.

Pork Farms, a meat processor based in Shaftesbury, is in consultation with its staff over laying off 90 of its 155 workers.

Initial Catering Services has become a licensee to use the Red Tractor logo on a proportion of its meat products.

Levy rates for the livestock sector are set to remain the same for the forthcoming year, according to the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board.

Pork butcher Dicksons is to launch its range of sausages into Tesco this month.

Down to the final five days before National Butchers' Week and butchers continue their preparations for a week of promotion.

A new series from the BBC will pitch couples against one another in a reality TV farm contest.

Holmesterne Foods came away celebrating after picking up the overall winner and two categories wins at the Bpex Foodservice Pork Product of the Year awards.

With just six days until National Butchers' Week, butchers across the UK will be dusting down the bunting and polishing up the patter for a week of fun-filled activity.

Job roles including factory managers, production staff and marketing are the main skill gaps for the food sector, according to a survey from a top recruiter.

Reports of a VAT being applied to food have been denied by a leading ally to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Mosques in Birmingham have called for consumers and processors to be made more of aware of machine slaughtering used in halal meat production.

Vegans are to be given the same protection against discrimination as religious groups, according to reports.

Animal rights activists in Switzerland have failed in a bid to have animals represented by lawyers in a nationwide referendum over the weekend.

Just seven days to go until National Butchers’ Week, and butchers up and down the country are gearing up to make the most of the week.

A Cumbrian butcher has triumphed in a Scottish competition to seek out the perfect banger to promote National Butchers’ Week.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has said it is looking for a ‘flexible approach’ when it comes to front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labelling in a new paper publishe on Friday.

Food Standards Agency (FSA) chief executive Tim Smith backed calls that CCTV should be installed in UK abattoirs, in a recent interview with a national newspaper.

A television company is looking for a butcher and their family to take part in a new series on the BBC, which will examine how shops have changed over the years.

Supermarket group Tesco has been heavily criticised for suggesting that consumers eat vegetables to reduce their carbon footprint.

A Welsh pie producer is set to honour some “British greats” with a special pie award, during British Pie Week (1-7 March).

Cancer bosses have dismissed a report by the US meat industry, which it claimed cast doubt on links between meat and cancer, as “more spin than science”.