Meat Management Meat Industry Awards return for 2025

Meat Management Meat Industry Awards return for 2025

The Meat Management Meat Industry Awards, organised by Meat Management magazine, are back for 2025. Product nominations and voting are officially open.

• Product nominations and voting are now open.
• The ceremony will be held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel on Thursday 18^th September 2025.
• Tickets can be purchased online.

The Meat Management Meat Industry Awards is the UK’s biggest annual meat industry awards programme, celebrating industry excellence and product innovation. The initiative is open to all involved in the meat industry, including manufacturers, processors, foodservice, retailers, training providers and trade bodies across the sector.

How does it work?

The awards are structured in two parts – product nominations and voting.

Product nomination is quick, easy and free, and companies can nominate an unlimited number of products in appropriate categories. Once the nomination period is over, a panel of industry experts will judge the products to a strict criteria to determine the winner of each product category.

If you make, sell or produce a meat product, consider nominating it into one of the below categories.

Product categories for 2025:

• Britain’s Best Sausage
• Britain’s Best Burger
• Britain’s Best Meat Pie
• Best Bacon Product
• Best Free From Product
• Best Charcuterie Product
• Best Poultry Product
• Best Beef Product
• Best Pork/Pigmeat Product
• Best Lamb Product
• Best Red Meat Product

The winner of the Best Red Meat Product award will be chosen from the winners of each of the Best Lamb, Pork and Beef categories.

Products can be nominated free of charge here: https://mediapack.meatmanagement.com/entry/

Voting categories for 2025:

• The Catering Butcher Award
• Best Trade Organisation
• Best Online Business
• Best Equipment/Machinery Supplier
• Training Scheme of the Year
• Young Manager of the Year (nominations required)
• Britain’s Best Butchers Shop
• Supermarket/Multiple Meat Retailer of the Year
• Manufacturer of the Year
• The Meat Management Excellence Award

For the Young Manager of the Year Award a finalists shortlist will be drawn up from the voting and candidates will be assessed by a specialist panel comprising industry specialists, and the prestigious Meat Management Excellence Award is given to a manager or senior executive who has made an outstanding contribution to the UK meat industry.

Click here to vote: https://mediapack.meatmanagement.com/vote/

The awards programme will culminate in a black-tie dinner and sparkling awards ceremony, taking place on Thursday 18th September 2025 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel. The initiative also presents the ideal opportunity network with members of the meat sector as well as connect with old friends.

Graham Yandell MBE, publisher of Meat Management magazine, said: “These awards really are a fantastic way to put your products on the map and reinforce just how exceptional NPD in the sector continues to be.

“The voting categories are a huge opportunity for the work of some of the best of the best in the business to be publicly acknowledged by peers and the industry at large.

“I would urge anyone and everyone in the sector to take part in this year’s Meat Management Meat Industry Awards and be proud of the sector you represent. The main thing is that you have to be in it to win it, so don’t delay!”

Visit meatmanagement.com/awards to learn more about the initiative.