Danish Crown has appointed Andrew Cracknell as chief executive of its integrated UK pig production and processing business Tulip. Group chief executive Jais Valeur has been managing Tulip on a day-to-day basis since June 2018, on top of his main job, when former Tulip...
Irish meat processor and food manufacturer the Kepak Group has moved into the UK redmeat slaughtering sector through the acquisition of the 2Sisters Red Meat assets with immediate effect. Kepak has agreed to buy the UK business and assets of 2Sisters Red Meat, part of...
Assured Food Standards (AFS), the company behind the Red Tractor Assurance brand, has appointed Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe as chairman. She replaces Jim Moseley who recently moved from the non-executive chairman role to become AFS chief executive. From a...
A Parliamentary Select Committee meeting has criticised a lack of co-ordination across farm and food assurance schemes. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee of the House of Commons met last week to discuss recent allegations of food safety breaches at the...
Boparan Holdings, parent of the 2 Sisters Food Group of meat processing and food manufacturing businesses, has reported reduced profitability from 5% higher revenues from the second quarter of its financial year.The Group made an operating profit of £19.4 million on...
2Agriculture, the independent poultry feed business spun out of the 2 Sisters Food Group’s purchase of the former Vion poultrymeatassets in 2014, has acquired a former Bernard Matthews feed mill in Norfolk. The Bawsey Mill near has a capacity of some 4,000...