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East Yorkshire business wins prestigious poultry award

East Yorkshire business wins prestigious poultry award

 

The team at T. Soanes and Son is celebrating after being awarded Poultry Processor of the Year at the Pig and Poultry Marketing Awards.

 

Nigel Upson, General Manager of the Middleton on the Wolds based business was presented with the prize at a Celebration Luncheon at the London Marriott County Halllast week.

 

Mr Upson was delighted to receive the award on behalf of the team at Soanes and said: "We are delighted and honoured to receive this prestigious industry award. It is the culmination of three years' investment and consolidation and a real credit to the whole team who have worked tirelessly to get Soanes where it is today."

 

Organised by Grove House Publishing, the Pig and Poultry Marketing Awards celebrate the pig and poultry industries and bring together representatives spanning the food chain from primary production, breeding, processing, branding, marketing and retail. The luncheon was presented by Sean Sparling and speaker, Nathan Ward from Kantar Worldpanel, presented some enlightening statistics about the UK food chain and market opportunities. The Poultry Processor of the Year award was sponsored byTrouw Nutrition.

 

The win comes on the back of Best Medium Business of the Year at the Hull Daily Mail Business Awards and a Highly Commended award for Soanes' Large Free Range Chicken at the Beverley Food Festival and East Yorkshire Local Food Network awards.

 

T.Soanes and Son is a family owned business which has been rearing and preparing chicken for 69 years. It rears over five million chickens a year on its Yorkshire Wolds farms and sells its chicken and game to butchers and independent retailers in Yorkshire and to wholesalers nationwide.

 

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Photo caption L - R ; Aled Edwards, Trouw Nutrition; Nigel Upson and Tom Kingston, Soanes Poultry; Sean Sparling

 

For more information or to arrange an interview with Nigel Upson, please contact Tracey Baty at three60 marketing on

 

Direct line: 01430 871360

Mobile: 07971 961574

E mail:traceybaty@three60 marketing.co.uk

Web:www.three60marketing.co.uk

 

Notes to editors

 

  1. For more information about T.Soanes & Son's game range, please visithttp://soanespoultry.co.uk/game/

  2. For more information about the Pig & Poultry Marketing Awards, please visithttp://www.farmbusiness.cc/news.asp?section=241&newsid=19764