James covers the different cuts produced from lamb and how he is educating his customers on tenderising the neck and shoulder cuts using marinades for the summer BBQ season
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We're pleased to let you know things have been progressing well in terms of the National Lamb Day campaign that Beef + Lamb New Zealand are facilitating.
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In January 2024 NZPork will be launching a new campaign and we're giving retailers a sneak peak!
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Lamb has claimed victory as the preferred main Christmas Day meat of choice, according to a new survey.
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Sam’s Butchery in Silverdale has been announced as the Supreme Winner in the 2023 Great New Zealand Sausage Competition.
‘Lamb Delight’ was the successful sausage announced at a special Sausage Mixer Awards this evening where butchers from across the nation gathered to find out who had snagged the top spot.
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It’s Recycling Week, and the retail meat sector has a great story to share when it comes to recycling clear PET (1) meat trays.
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Six of the country’s finest butchers have been named as part of New Zealand’s national butchery team – the Hellers Sharp Blacks – and will compete at the World Butchers’ Challenge which takes place in Paris in March 2025.
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Following an exhilarating event held at Auckland’s Eventfinda Stadium today, the results from the prestigious National Butchery Awards have been unveiled.
Luka Young from PAK’nSAVE Kaitaia has won the esteemed Pact Packaging Young Butcher of the Year title and Morgan Moore from New World in Motueka was crowned ANZCO Foods Butcher Apprentice of the Year.
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A Hawke’s Bay butchery has been announced as the Supreme Winner in both bacon and ham categories of the 100% New Zealand Bacon & Ham Awards. Wild Game in Hastings has taken out New Zealand’s top bacon award with their middle eye/loin entry and New Zealand’s best ham award for their boneless ham.
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Four South Island butchers have carved themselves a path to the grand final of the 2023 Pact Packaging Young Butcher and ANZCO Foods Butcher Apprentice of the Year competition.
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Driven by innovation, creativity and quality ingredients, the Newly Weds Foods NZ skilled culinary team has its finger on the pulse of the latest food trends throughout the world and provides customers with the food solutions they're looking for.
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It's International Women's Day so we're taking the opportunity to introduce you to some of the inspirational (and dedicated) women in our apprentice community. Join us in speaking to Sam Chapman from New World Prestons and Porsche Davis from New World Te Rapa.
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Hear James Smith (AKA the Tattooed Butcher) talk all things steak, plus hear more about his journey to becoming a successful butch-fluencer!
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2022 has been a great year for Warkworth Butchery - they were named the supreme bacon winner in the 100% New Zealand Bacon & Ham Awards, took out two gold medals at the Great New Zealand Sausage Competition and have launched a whole new online presence. But it hasn’t been an easy road, or a quick win - Rob and Renee Lees bought the butchery nine years ago and have been slowly growing and progressing in the industry.
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COVID hit many businesses and industries hard, but from these tough times there has been some good news stories. Cameron Harrison Butchery talks to us about how they got through the tough times and what opportunities have since opened up for them.
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Get your ovens ready, the results of the most important vote of the year are in, and New Zealand lamb will be the protein of choice on Kiwis’ plates this Christmas Day.
The result comes as part of the Great Kiwi Christmas Survey – the fifth edition of the poll run by Retail Meat New Zealand in conjunction with Beef + Lamb New Zealand and NZPork.
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Brad Gillespie from New World Rototuna in Hamilton has won the prestigious Pact Packaging Young Butcher of the Year title and Rhys Tamanui from Waipawa Butchery in Hawkes Bay was crowned ANZCO Foods Butcher Apprentice of the Year. The Black Gloves – a team made up of butchers from Australia – claimed victory at the Pure South Master Butcher Teams’ Challenge.
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Two butchers from Northland have carved themselves a path to the grand final of the 2022 Pact Packaging Young Butcher and ANZCO Foods Butcher Apprentice of the Year competition.
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The Hellers Sharp Blacks have won third place at the World Butchers’ Challenge in Sacramento held over the weekend. The team, made up of six Kiwi butchers, travelled to the U.S.A. last week to compete against 12 other countries in a three-and-a-half-hour showdown at the Golden 1 Centre in Sacramento.
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Two butcheries have been announced as Supreme Winners in the 100% New Zealand Bacon & Ham Awards. Warkworth Butchery has taken out New Zealand’s top bacon award with their dry cured middle bacon entry and Auckland’s Westmere Butchery has won New Zealand’s best ham award for their bone-in leg ham.
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