We produce quarterly meat market reports to provide insight into availability and price affecting the wholesale meat market, to help you plan your menu over the months ahead.
At the time of writing, we are looking ahead to summer and hopefully a little sunshine, giving us a sense of optimism for the upcoming months. UK inflation appears to have peaked, wage growth in the UK is strengthened by the National Living wage increase, and supply chains appear to be mostly stabilising, albeit at a higher price than expected.
Overall, trading is expected to remain tough and we are committed to maximising value for money and reducing wastage through our commitment to carcase nose to tail utilisation – ensuring that every part of the animal is utilised to its fullest potential.
Using a combination of our own buyer’s and sales teams knowledge combined with industry insight from AHDB, we aim to provide you with the latest information on the meat market, to assist you with your menu planning.
Our mission at Campbell Brothers is to procure fully traceable, sustainable meats from the market at the most affordable price without compromising your quality. Where products are perhaps more expensive than normal, or demand has caused shortages in supply, our experienced and knowledgeable team are here to support you by suggesting quality alternatives. Please contact your account manager should you require any assistance.
Using a combination of our own buyer’s and sales teams knowledge combined with industry insight from AHDB, we aim to provide you with the latest information on the meat market, to assist you with your menu planning.
As always, where products are higher than usual, or demand has caused shortages in supply, our experienced and knowledgeable team are here to support you and guide you to suggest alternatives. Please contact your account manager should you require any assistance.
Combining our internal knowledge along with wider market insight from AHDB, our quarterly market report aims to provide you with information to assist with your menu planning over the coming months.
Where product prices are higher than usual, or demand has caused shortages in supply, our experienced and knowledgeable team are here to support you and guide you with suggestions for alternatives. Please contact your account manager should you require any assistance.
As always, we thank you for your continued support, particularly during these challenging times in the food industry.
We have taken a new approach to our market report this quarter, combining our buyer’s and sales teams knowledge with industry insight from AHDB, who we thank for their invaluable data.
We aim to provide you with information to assist you with your menu planning and always welcome feedback on our communications.
Where products are more expensive than usual, or demand has caused shortages in supply, our experienced and knowledgeable team are here to support you and guide you to suggest alternatives. Please contact your account manager should you require any assistance.
As always, we thank you for your continued support, particularly during these challenging times in the food industry.
Supply and demand:The marketplace, as outlined below, remains a challenge – with demand increasing and availability still tight. Our teams work tirelessly to ensure we are well stocked with quality products for our customers. This is one of the benefits of us working 52 weeks a year with all our loyal supply chain partners.
New world pricing: New world pricing is here to stay, with many well documented factors contributing globally to the cost of food. Brexit, the crisis in Ukraine, rising energy costs, packaging increases, labour and general product availability being the leading factors.
Staffing: This remains a challenge for Campbell Brothers as we try to increase our headcount. We have been recruiting for a number of positions across our business including butchers, drivers and general operatives. We are looking forward to bringing many more skilled staff into our Campbell Brothers family, and continuing to work together to offer the best quality products carefully prepared by our team, and to provide a high level of service to all our valued customers.
Please remember; despite rising costs, there is usually an alternative product available, whether that be on origin or specification change, our experienced team are always here to help with any questions you may have and all your product development requirements.
Supply and demand: The market place, as outlined in our report, remains a challenge – with demand increasing and availability still tight. Our teams work tirelessly to ensure we are well stocked with quality products for our customers. This is one of the benefits of us working 52 weeks a year with all our loyal supply chain partners.
New world pricing: New world pricing is here to stay with many well documented factors contributing globally to the cost of food. Brexit, the crisis in Ukraine, rising energy costs, packaging increases, labour and general product availability being the leading factors.
Staffing: Remains a challenge for Campbell Brothers as we try to increase our head count, we have been recruiting for a number of positions across our business including butchers, drivers and general operatives. We are looking forward to bringing many more skilled staff into our Campbell Brothers family and continuing to work together to offer the best quality products, carefully prepared and provide a high level of service to all our valued customers.
Despite rising costs, there is usually an alternative product available, whether that be on origin or specification change, our experienced team are always here to help with product development.
Over the last few months Campbell Brothers have continued our best efforts to recover from the impact of COVID, whilst negotiating our way through the challenging market place we still find ourselves in. Throughout lockdowns we kept our wholesale dry aged beef stock to minimum due to lack of demand but over the last few months, as the hospitality industry has begun to find its feet again, we are very proud to say our Himalayan Salt Dry Aged Chamber is once again well stock with the best quality Scotch Beef available.
As widely document across the industry, one of the main challenges we currently face, and expect to continue to face over the coming months, is the shortage and therefore increasing price of poultry. The outbreak of Avian Bird Flu in Europe has resulted in stocks of duck being cut to just 25% of normal volumes and thousands of chickens being culled in The Netherlands leading to shortages across the market. If you are going to require wholesale chicken please try your best to plan ahead and get your orders in as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Staffing remains a challenge for Campbell Brothers as we try to increase our head count back to where it was pre-COVID. We have been recruiting for a number of positions across our business including; butchers, fish mongers, drivers and general operatives. We are looking forward to bringing many skilled and talented staff into our Campbell Brothers family and working together to offer the best quality products and service possible to our valued customers.
Once again we would like to thank all our customers who have worked with us during this challenging time and understanding that we must react to market changes. Please always remember, despite rising costs, there is usually always an alternative, whether that be on origin or specification change, our experienced team are always here to help.
As widely documented across the industry, staffing remains a real challenge. We have been recruiting for new butchers, drivers and warehouse operatives, and we now have our staffing numbers back where the business requires, with some fantastic new people joining the team at Campbell Brothers. These new additions to our team will help to further improve our service levels.
The biggest risk and concern, however, remains with availability and pricing. With prices continuing to strongly march upwards, availability remains tight.
We have been discussing with all our clients the need to react to the market as we simply cannot stand still, and we thank everyone for working with us to support this. It is pleasing that the majority of our customers have been understanding and accept that this is an industry-wide issue and ‘we are all in this together’.
Please always remember, despite rising costs, there is usually an alternative available, whether that be on origin or specification change, our experienced team can always help. Please click here or on the image to view the full winter 2021 butchers report.
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