2 Sisters Food Group’s parent company, Boparan Holdings, has reported a 39% fall in like-for-like operating profit to £13.1M in its third-quarter trading update, driven by redundancy and bird flu costs.
Bird flu restrictions have cost the UK poultry meat sector more than £100M over the past two years, confirmed the British Poultry Council (BPC), ahead of the lifting of the ban on poultry starting today (April 13).
Bird flu poses no food safety risk for consumers, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) insists, after avian flu (H5N8) was found in 5,000 turkeys at a farm near Louth, Lincolnshire on Friday (December 16).
Poultry producers have insisted that supplies for the busy Christmas period won’t be affected by the government warning of a potential UK bird flu outbreak.
Poultry producers have been ordered to keep their birds indoors for 30 days, in a bid to protect the industry from a “devastating” outbreak of avian flu.
Bernard Matthews has sold its German subsidiary – Bernard Matthews Oldenburg (BMO) – to the Sprehe Gruppe, a German meat company, for £11.9M (€14M), after it was itself offered for sale last week.
Poultry processor 2 Sisters Food Group said that the onslaught of avian influenza, negative consumer sentiment following campylobacter reporting and food deflation impacted its financial results for the year ending August 1 2015.
A suspected case of bird flu has been identified on a farm in Scotland, causing the country’s government to issue a warning to nearby poultry processors.
The outbreak of bird flu confirmed on the Yorkshire duck farm this week has been identified as the highly contagious stain H5N8, but it’s too early to gauge the threat to Christmas turkey and other poultry suppliers.
Britain’s first case of bird flu for six years has been confirmed on a duck farm in Yorkshire, after a contagious strain of bird flu was detected on a poultry farm in the Netherlands.
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Grampian Country Food Group is slashing 80 jobs at its poultry processing plant in Banff and up to 50 jobs at its frozen chicken plant in Bucksburn,...
