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Lishman’s Butchers in Ilkley was first announced as winner of North of England Butcher’s Shop of the Year – the third time they have won the regional title – before learning that they had also clinched the overall UK Best Butchers Shop accolade in one of the meat industry’s 2017 highlights.
Following its 2014 commitment to switch to a 100 percent cage-free global egg supply chain, Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, announced that it will complete this transition by 2025. According to Nestlé, all eggs it sources must be from hens raised without the use of cages, helping accelerate the egg industry’s move away from the caged confinement of laying hens.
Rebecca Brooks is the only full-time female butcher at Forager’s Market, a nose to tail butcher shop in Brooklyn, New York, and one of a scant 24.6% of butchers who are women in the US. But she is cranking out 45 pounds of sausage a week and showing that skill and technique are key to a butcher’s work.
The dry-aging technique is being described as “a significant industry trend”, spurring Viking Food Solutions to showcase the ‘Dry Ager’ product range at the 2017 Fine Food Australia Expo, demonstrating the value to food businesses of producing unrivalled product quality via the meat dry-aging process.
Registration is now open for professionals wishing to attend the region’s largest exhibition dedicated to the packaging and print industry, taking place at the Landmark Centre, Lagos, Nigeria from 19 to 21 September 2017. Propak West Africa 2017 will be the largest to date.
Anuga, the international tradeshow for the retail trade, food service and catering markets, will take place at the Keolnmesse in Cologne, Germany, Oct. 7-11, where bakers, culinary professionals and retail operators will share ideas for the development of products that appeal to today’s foodies who crave flavour, adventure and convenience.
Creating a solution ideal for a variety of food applications, Linx Printing Technologies has widened its range of specialist inks with the introduction of a new formula that meets the challenges of coding onto oily surfaces.
Reuben Sharples from Aussie Butcher New Lynn has been named Alto Butcher of the Year and Samantha Weller from New World Rangiora took out the title of Competenz Butcher Apprentice of the Year.
Simon Howie is not easy to categorise. A trained butcher by trade, the company he is best known for under his own name supplies meat to supermarkets across the UK and also upmarket hotels like Gleneagles. He has taken his eponymous butchers business to new heights – in 2015 is turned over a massive £14.7m and make a profit of £2.5m before tax.
In this interview, he explains what has driven him to such successful heights.
