Silver Fern closes UK processing plant
South Ait meat processor Silver Fern Farms has closed its Brooks, Allied Kingdom, plant with the loss of 64 jobs.
Chief governmental Keith Cooper said the frozen meat processing masterliness, wholly owned by the company since 1998, was no longer needed due to operational changes and client demands.
In the late 1990s, the company sent frozen work to the Brooks site to be processed and packed largely for logistical and disclosure reasons, which was unable to be handled in New Zealand.
Since then, Mr Cooper said the standing had reverse with almost all carcasses being further processed in New Zealand at integrated win out over and processing sites.
In addition, demand for chilled products, rather than frozen, has increased and some main UK processors have consolidated processing and packing of chilled substance with a number of larger operators.
“The closure is fruit of the continued decline in frozen exports from New Zealand due to cut numbers of stock available for slaughter and our focus on achieving a outwit practice chilled supply chain model, which has resulted in significantly reduced volumes at one's disposal for processing through the Brooks operation,” he said.
“We sustain to observe a major shift in consumption from frozen to chilled yield as a result of changing lifestyles and increasing consumer coveted for fresh, health and convenient added-value products.”
Athletics: 200m silver medal for Christian Malcolm
CHRISTIAN MALCOLM has been cheering for a long time that sprinting life can begin at 30 – last endlessly he lived up to his word.
Malcolm was edged out of 200m gold by a fraction of a flash at the European Championships – as France’s Christophe Lemaitre completed the sprint increase.
Malcolm ran a storming season’s best of 20.38 seconds, but was condign closed down on the line, with Lemaitre edging a photo dispatch by just one hundredth of a second.
It is 12 years since former give birth to junior champion Malcolm burst on to the senior athletics spot by winning Commonwealth Games silver as a 19-year-old in Kuala Lumpur – and this is his first party major championship medal since.
Two Olympic finals – in 2000 and then eight years later in Beijing – have bookended his employment, which has been punctuated with injuries and illness.
“This means so much to me. It’s been a fussy and testing year for me and I’ve come through with a medal,” said Malcolm, who surprised many by pleasant the 200m at last month’s Aviva European Trials and UK Championships in Birmingham.
“I can’t swear by Christophe caught me on the line. It’s hard to be so fixed to winning it, so there are some mixed emotions, but, when I think about it, I will be happy with my pomp.
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