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January 6th 2010Meridian Meats have just been declared regional winners of the Countryside Alliance ‘Daily Telegraph Traditional Business’ for the East of England Region. Click here for the Countryside Alliance Regional Winners page.
The Countryside Alliance Awards, now in their fifth year, aim to celebrate the characters, skills, traditions and enterprise of the countryside through the people who work so hard to make it tick. This year’s Awards attracted a record 2,500 nominations from the public, all of a high calibre. Regional finalists across four categories included village shops and Post Offices, butchers, breweries, pubs, cheese makers, feed merchants, smokeries, tea rooms, hotels, ice-cream makers, farm shops and even an oysterage.
The Grand Final will take place at the House of Lords in London on Wednesday 3rd February 2010, and we shall be there with the other regional winners to find out who has taken the British crown in each of the four categories. At the Grand Final the Rural Hero of 2009 and the Countryside Alliance Political Awards will also be announced.
December 11th & 12th 2009
Congratulations to the Woolatt Family, Sid Hollier and Peter Mitchell for their fantastic successes at AgriLIVE Smithfield. Click here to read about their individual successes culminating in the Society's nominated Group of Three Purebreds taking the Reserve Championship behind the Aberdeen Angus Team, but ahead of all the rest!
November 20th 2009
Following Jim winning the BBC Young Butcher of the Year we are featured in the Farmers Guardian. Click here to read the article.
November 16th 2009
The BBC Young Butcher of the Year is broadcast. Having made it to the final five Jim went on to win the title! Click here for Jim's Blog.
November 10th 2009
Jim and Odile go down to London to attend the 2009 Q Guild Smithfield Awards presentation lunch at Butchers Hall and receive 4 Gold Awards, 3 Silver Awards and 3 Bronze Awards from celebrity chef Brian Turner. Click here for more details...
November 4th 2009
We learn that Meridian Meats are one of three regional finalists in the Daily Telegraph Traditional Countryside Business category of the 2009 Countryside Alliance Awards. Click here for more about the awards and here for an article by Charlie Brooks about the awards in the Daily Telegraph.
August 27th 2009
Unfortunately when we moved Meridian Meats from its location here on the farm to our new premises in Louth at the beginning of February 2008 we had to withdraw our online ordering facility in response the disappointment being caused to customers ordering in good faith only to be told that their choice was temporarily out of stock! We are delighted to say that today we have relaunced the facility and our Online Shop is again open for business! We shall be adding new products and categories over the coming months.
June 24th 2009
Our bull Tetford Jedi wins Male Champion and Reserve Breed Champion at the Lincolnshire Show. Click here for the results.
March 5th 2009
Dave Myers and Si King, the Hairy Bikers, dropped in to see us whilst in Louth filming for their new BBC2 TV series 'The Hairy Biker's Food Tour of Britain'. After congratulating us on our recent success winning Britain's Best Steak they left clutching a fresh pork pie!
February 18th 2009
Country Life magazine organised a beef tasting session where steaks from 11 native breeds were cooked by the staff at Hix Oyster & Chop House in London and were tasted by a panel of 10 judges. We supplied the Longhorn beef for this contest and were absolutely delighted when our steak was voted "Britain's Best Steak" Click here to read the full article.
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