event: ANZCO FOODS BUTCHER APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR

Winners of the ANZCO Foods Butcher Apprentice 2025 Competition

AWARD WINNERS YB&BA

Beef + Lamb New Zealand ‘Best Beef Product’

Cody Burbery from PAK’nSAVE Te Awamutu - Beef Truffles

Beef + Lamb New Zealand ‘Best LAMB Product’

Matthew Hiroti from PAK’nSAVE Ormiston - Lambchetta

NZPork Best Pork Product

Chloe Steel from De Bauchery - Stuffed Pork Scotch Roast

Tegel Foods Best Chicken Product

Chloe Steel from De Bauchery - Stuffed Pork Scotch Roast

CABERNET FOODS CLEANEST BONES

Rhys Tamanui, Waipawa Butchery

SKills4work emerging talent award

Mya Wilson-Hiraka, New World Mangawhai

Past winners: ANZCO FOODS BUTCHER APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR

2025: Alex Pellow - New World Mount Maunganui
2024: Anton Rameka - New World Regent
2023: Morgan Moore - New World Motueka
2022: Rhys Tamanui - Waipawa Butchery, Hawkes Bay
2021: Isaac Webster - New World Gardens, Dunedin
2020: Blair Wright - Peter Timbs Meats, Christchurch
2019: Cherise Redden - Countdown Meat & Seafood, Auckland
2018: Corey White – Countdown Meat & Seafood, Auckland
2017: Samantha Weller – New World Rangiora
2016: Ben Henry – New World Centre City, Dunedin
2015: Hohepa Smith – Countdown Meat & Livestock, Auckland
2014: Luka Young – PAK'nSAVE Lincoln Road, Auckland
2013: Jack Khosrawi – PAK'nSAVE Lincoln Road, Auckland
2012: Jared McLeod – New World Regent, Whangarei
2011: Abigail Lane – PAK'nSAVE Kaitaia
2010: Damien Hanley – New World Hillcrest, Hamilton

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