Effective waste management hints and tips

Effective waste management hints and tips With the weather starting to heat up, here’s some top tips from our Preferred Partner, Unyfi, who are waste management experts, to make sure your bins are in tip top condition. ✔️ Do you segregate your waste properly? As landfill tax incredibly high, all businesses will financially benefit by […]

Women in Meat Awards 2023 seeks nominations

Women in Meat Awards 2023 seeks nominations The latest campaign to find the Meat Businesswoman of the Year is underway and offers the opportunity for NCB Members, companies and individuals across the industry to nominate candidates. The deadline for nominations is 7th July 2023. The online voting process for the finalists will then be announced […]

National Craft Butchers install new President at AGM and Members Day 2023

National Craft Butchers install new President at AGM and Members Day 2023 National Craft Butchers held their first Members Day since 2019 at Ironmongers Hall, London on 26th June. Attended by NCB members, partners, member services and wider industry it was a fabulous return to in person events since their last Members Day in 2019 […]

National survey shows independent butchers cutting better deal for people and planet

National survey shows independent butchers cutting better deal for people and planet National Craft Butchers (NCB) has released the results of its Big British Butchers Survey 2023, offering an insight into one of the cornerstones of the struggling UK high street. While reporting generally steady trading conditions across the country, with 56.49% indicating a higher […]

Member profile: Cranstons, Butcher and Maker

Member profile: Cranstons, Butcher and Maker Cranstons have come a long way since Stanley Cranston delivered meat to customers in the northern Eden Valley on his horse and cart over a century ago. Cranstons now have four Food Halls and two traditional butchers shops throughout Cumbria. Still a family business, Cranstons talked to Craft Butcher […]

Pork crowned most popular meat at Coronation

Pork crowned most popular meat at Coronation Pork products were the star of the coronation weekend, with uplifts seen across all pork categories including sausages and burgers and during the celebratory period. As predicted by AHDB analysts, meat snacking products performed well over the coronation. According to the latest data from Kantar, sales of scotch […]

Meat-free products have potential to cause confusion with shoppers

The majority of shoppers feel meat-free products should be displayed separately to meat products in order to avoid confusion, according to research commissioned by AHDB. The research, undertaken by AHDB’s Retail & Consumer Insight team with The Smithfield Collective, set out to understand shoppers’ behaviour towards vegetarian and vegan products that are designed to compete […]

Member profile: Aldens of Oxford

Member profile: Aldens of Oxford Alden’s of Oxford could possibly lay claim to being the oldest family butchery business in the country. Incredibly, Managing Director, Matthew Alden, can trace Alden’s butchery roots back 230 years to 1793, when his ancestor Isaac Alden opened the first Aldens butchers shop on Bear Lane, Oxford. Matthew is now […]