| 2009 SMITHFIELD CHAMPION Cherrybank Ellrick bound for Pitlochry butchers - More... |
| CHAMPION FIT FOR A PRINCE The Royal Highland Winter Fair champion is heading for the Royal Family's Christmas dining table if buyer and SFMTA member, Paul Conway has anything to do with it. - More... |
| 2010 WORLD SCOTCH PIE CHAMPIONSHIP Butchers have again triumphed in the World Scotch Pie Championships taking four of the top six places and also making Scotland's best Sausage Roll. List of SFMTA members who won awards - More... |
| UK YOUNG BUTCHER OF THE YEAR 2009 Stewart McClymont from Bennetts in Dunblane lifted the title at a ceremony in London on Tuesday 17th November. - More... |
| 2009 SCOTTISH BUTCHERS SHOP OF THE YEAR Congratulations to Simon Howie, Auchterarder who were named Scottish Butchers Shop of the Year at the Meat Trades Journal's final at the Sheraton Park Lane on Tuesday 17th November 2009 - More... |
| COOKING METHODS DVD ON THE WAY Members can expect to receive DVDs early next year that will show cooking methods for meat. - More... |
| WORLD SCOTCH PIE CLUB JUDGING Judging to determine the 2010 World Scotch Pie Champion took place on Tuesday 10th November 2009 at Carnegie College, Dunfermline. - More... |
| GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR PGI SFMTA's proposal to seek PGI (Protected Geographical Indicator) status for the Lorne Sausage has gained momentum with high profile reporting in all the leading national newspapers, Scottish Television, BBC website and BBC Five Live. - More... |
| EU STATUS FOR LORNE SAUSAGE Scotland’s butchers are hoping that the Lorne Sausage can be the next truly Scottish food to gain the status of Protected Geographical Indicator (PGI). This would raise one of the nation’s favourite foods to the same status as Arbroath Smokies, Parma Ham and Melton Mowbray pies. - More... |
| SUGGEST A SAUSAGE Federation launches consumer competition for British Sausage Week. £250 prize for winning suggestion. - More... |
| 2009 TRADITIONAL STEAK PIE AWARDS The Steak Pie from Scone butcher Ann Davidson was destined for success in this year’s Scottish Butchers Traditional Steak Pie Competition. - More... |
| 2009 SPECIALITY STEAK PIE EVALUATION Sweet Apple Success for Dunblane Steak Pie - More... |
| WE HAVE A WINNER! The Meat Trades Journal 2009 Young Butcher of the Year Award certain to come to Scotland. - More... |
| 2009 STEAK PIE EVALUATION Sponsored by Wm Sword Pictures and News - Thursday 13th August - More... |
| ONLINE RETAIL AWARD Forres member picks up 3 accolades in the inaugural, 2009 International Online Retail Awards - More... |
| BOGHALL BUTCHERS KEEP WINNING The Best in the North West of Britain according to The Sun - More... |
| BEST SCOTTISH BUTCHERS STEAK PIE An evaluation will take place at Perth College, Thursday 13th August 2009. - More... |
| ROYAL HIGHLAND SHOW 2009 Visit SFMTA on the Quality Meat Scotland Stand and speak to members - The Dounby Butcher, Frank Yorke and Ballathie Farm Foods - in the Foodhall. - More... |
| SFMTA GOLF DAY The SFMTA Golf Day, sponsored by Dalziel Ltd. was held at Ladybank Golf Course on Wednesday 17th June 2009. - More... |
| 2009 SCOTTISH HAGGIS CHAMPIONSHIP New Chieftain is Scott Carson from Dalbeattie. Sponsored by Grampian Oat Products: Sunday 10th May 2009, Dewars Centre, Perth. - More... |
| 2009 SCOTTISH PORK SAUSAGE CHAMPIONSHIP Competition, sponsored by Lucas Ingredients, identifies the best Pork Sausage in Scotland to be that from the Scottish Borders village of St Boswells - More... |
| 2009 READY TO COOK - UNSMOKED The results of the 2009 Cured Meat Product Evaluations were announced in Perth on Sunday 10th May 2009. The best cured product Ready to Cook was the unsmoked bacon from Halliwells in Selkirk. - More... |
| 2009 - READY TO COOK - SMOKED The results of the 2009 Cured Meat Product Evaluations were announced in Perth on Sunday 10th May 2009. The best cured and smoked product was the Belfast Style Ham from Duncan Fraser, Queensgate, Inverness. - More... |
| 2009 READY TO EAT AWARDS The best Ready to Eat product in the 2009 Cured Meat Evaluation was the Smoked Chicken Breast produced by Mearns T McCaskie in Wemyss Bay. - More... |
| BUTCHERS GO INTO BATTLE Scotland’s top butchers sharpened their knives to go into a battle of skills. - More... |
| WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS A list of all the current Scottish Champions from meat product competitions. - More... |
| £500 DISCOUNT VOUCHER AT TRADE FAIR Avery Berkel opens the doors to new wrapping systems - More... |
| UK YOUNG BUTCHER OF THE YEAR The search is still on for the UK's top young talent in an ambitious new television programme, Young Butcher of the Year 2009, which celebrates the millions of young British workers whose skills aren't the kind to win them a million pound recording contract. - More... |
| NEW SFMTA PRESIDENT Stuart Christie of Christie Meats in Hardgate, West Dunbartonshire was elected President of SFMTA on 30th November 2008 - More... |
| UK YOUNG BUTCHER OF THE YEAR Alan Elliot of Dalbeattie Fine Foods picked up yet another award, this time in London. He was one of three Scottish finalists. - More... |
| BUTCHERS SHOP OF THE YEAR 2008 RESULTS Congratulations to Scottish Butchers Shop of the Year 2008 Davidson Specialist Butchers, Inverurie. and also to UK Young Butcher of the Year Alan Elliot of Dalbeattie Fine Foods. - More... |
| BUTCHERS IN PINK Butchers throughout Scotland got "In the Pink" on Friday 24th October to raise funds and awareness for Breast Cancer Care. - More... |
| 2008 BLACK PUDDING CHAMPION Scottish Black Pudding Champion 2008 is Dalbeattie Fine Foods - More... |
| 2008 SCOTTISH BEEF SAUSAGE CHAMPIONS The 2008 Scottish Beef Sausage Champions are John M Munro from Dingwall - More... |
| MEAT TO GO AWARDS 2008 This year’s product evaluation was held at Perth College on Thursday 14th August. - More... |
| BUTCHERS IN THE PINK Butchers have been asked to dress in pink during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. Members have ordered 300 pink aprons to take part in the campaign. - More... |
| MEAT PRICE INFLATION 12/08/2008: What is driving up prices of beef and lamb? - More... |
| SCOTTISH FOOD FORTNIGHT 6th to 21st September 2008. Opportunity for Scotland's Craft Butchers to showcase quality Scottish produce. This year`s Scottish Food Fortnight, the annual celebration of Scotland`s food and drink, is shaping up to be the biggest and best yet. - More... |
ROYAL HIGHLAND SHOW 2008 Two members exhibited in the Food Hall and three performed cutting demonstrations on QMS Stand. - More... |
| SFMTA GOLF DAY The SFMTA Golf Day, sponsored by Dalziel Ltd. was held at Ladybank Golf Course on Wednesday 4th June. - More... |
| CUT US IN PLEASE It is with dismay that we hear of an extra £19 million being ploughed into the Further Education system in Scotland bringing the budget available to colleges ands universities to £555m in the academic year beginning 1st August 2008. - More... |
| TRAINEE PLACES FOR 2008-09 Act now to gain one of the limited spaces for fully funded 16-18 year old trainees - More... |
| SFMTA GOLF COMPETITION Organised by the Scottish Federation of Meat Traders' Associations Inc (Kindly sponsored by Dalziel Ltd)on Wednesday 4th June 2008 to be held at Ladybank Golf Course, Ladybank, Fife. - More... |
| EU MINCE REGULATIONS EU regulations do not include mince produced in butchers shops to be sold over the counter to the final consumer - More... |
| OUTSTANDING SVQ CANDIDATE OF THE YEAR Barry Parkin and his employer George Jarron Jun travelled to Butchers Hall in London at the end of last month to receive the award for the Scottish Vocational Qualifications’ Candidate of the Year. - More... |
| 2008 WORLD SCOTCH PIE CHAMPIONSHIP Butchers pick up six of the top nine awards, including 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the World Scotch Pie Championships and Amos Smith is famous as Buckhaven in Fife is crowned the Scotch Pie capital of the World at the Scotch Pie Club awards ceremony - More... |
| SCOTTISH BUTCHERS SHOP OF THE YEAR Pauls Quality Butchers, Kilsyth was named Scottish Butchers Shop of the Year for 2007. - More... |
| BEST SCOTTISH BUTCHERS STEAK PIE The steak pies from the regional winners listed below were purchased over the counter by mystery shoppers in August 2007 and put to the test by the experts from Andrew Fairlie's at Gleneagles Hotel. - More... |
| SPECIALITY STEAK PIE WINNERS The best Speciality Steak Pie in the 2007 Steak Pie Evaluation was from Crombies of Edinburgh. - More... |
| COST CONCERNS IN MHS CHARGES REVIEW Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers voice ‘serious concerns’ over FSA meat controls review and prospect of £5 a beast rise in industry charges. - More... |
| SCOTLAND'S BEST BUTCHERS STEAK PIE An evaluation to find Scotland's Best Traditional Steak Pie and Best Speciality Steak Pie was held in August 2007 in association with The Scotch Butchers Club & William Sword Limited. Awards will be presented at the Verstegen Winter Products demonstrations from 24th to 26th September. |
| QMS PROVIDE PLATFORM FOR BUTCHERS AT RHS The Quality Meat Scotland Stand was a hive of activity during the Royal Highland Show, at times giving welcome shelter from the usual heavy rain. The Federation was involved with skills demonstrations. - More... |
| 2007 FEDERATION GOLF DAY Jim Preston from Strathaven led the way in the Members competition. John Gunster, SFMTA Health and Safety Adviser won the reps competition and John Holloway a guest of John Hamilton recorded the best card. - More... |
| 2007 NATIONAL BARBECUE CHAMPIONSHIPS The Guild of Q Butchers held their very impressive Barbecue Championships in Scotland for the first time. Five Scottish Federation members entered teams. Pictures... - More... |
| 2007 SCOTTISH MEAT TRADES FAIR Results of competitions held at the 2007 Trade Fair held in Dewars Centre, Perth on Sunday 13th May. - More... |
| 2007 SCOTTISH HAGGIS CHAMPIONSHIP The 2007 Haggis Championship was decided in a competition sponsored by Grampian Oat Products held at the Scottish Meat Trade Fair on Sunday 13th May in Perth. The outcome was a win for the South West Scotland Champion, Alan Elliot of Dalbeattie Fine Foods but there is something Irish about that! - More... |
2007 SCOTTISH PORK SAUSAGE CHAMPIONSHIP The 2007 champion crowned after the Lucas sponsored, Scottish Pork Sausage Championships held in Perth on Sunday 12th May was R. Brown & Son of Stenhousemuir - More... |
| 2007 SCOTTISH BURGER AWARDS Scotland's Best Burger in 2007 is a Beef, Spring Onion and Cheese Burger made by John McIntosh in Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire - More... |
| 2007 HAGGIS WITH A DIFFERENCE An ‘Asian Haggis’, produced appropriately in the far east of Scotland by Findlay's of Portobello has proven the hot favourite in the ‘Haggis with a Difference’ evaluation. - More... |
| A HAGGIS FULL OF EASTERN PROMISE An ‘Asian Haggis’, produced appropriately in the far east of Scotland by Findlay's of Portobello has proven the hot favourite in the ‘Haggis with a Difference’ evaluation. - More... |
| FAT REDUCTION - HEALTHIER PRODUCTS Objective is to help members produce healthier products by means of recipe modification, fat and salt reduction etc. - More... |
| WORLD SCOTCH PIE CHAMPIONSHIP 2007 Keith Stuart of RT Stuart Ltd. butchers and bakers, Buckhaven won the World Scotch Pie title in a presentation made at Baxters, Blackford on Wednesday 29th November 2006. - More... |
| NEW PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS The 2006 Annual General Meeting was held at the Best Western Popinjay Hotel, Rosebank in the Clyde Valley. Jamie Chapman of Chapman Butchers in Wishaw was elected President. - More... |
| SCOTTISH BEST BUTCHERS IN UK Scottish butchers swept the boards with the top awards at the Meat Trades Journal's Best Butchers Shop of the Year Awards held at Claridges in London on Tuesday 7th November. - More... |
| KEURSLAGER BUTCHERS IN SCOTLAND Keurslager/ Verstegen Demonstration Nights were a tremendous success with members and staff taking away many fantastic ideas. - More... |
| KEURSLAGER EVENING - INVERNESS Pictures from the Dutch Meat Product evening in Inverness - More... |
| KEURSLAGER NIGHT - BELLSHILL Pictures from the opening night of the Keurslager and Verstegen Tour of Scotland. 69 interested butchers attended at the Strathclyde Hilton in Bellshill. - More... |
| ADJUSTING FOR BETTER BUSINESS Did you know that by making just a few simple adjustments your business could open its doors to even more customers?  - More... |
| MEAT SKILLS SCOTLAND Results from the Quality Meat Scotland sponsored skills competition held at the 2006 Scottish Meat Challenge - More... |
| BEST BLACK PUDDING OF 2006 The 2006 Scottish Black Pudding competition deemed the Champion comes from Dundee - More... |
| SCOTTISH MEAT CHALLENGE 2006 The Scottish Craft Butchers' big day out - More... |
| THE DUTCH ARE COMING!! Workshops for October - More... |
| MEMBERS AT THE RHS Royal Highland Show sees high profile for craft butchers - More... |
| VERTEBRAL COLUMN REMOVAL SFMTA recommends that butchers apply for authorisation to remove VC in butchers shops, whether or not you have an immediate need for the authorisation. - More... |
| 2006 BEEF SAUSAGE QUALIFIERS Scotland's Top Ten Beef Sausages head for Fife - More... |
| 2006 SPECIALITY SAUSAGE COMPETITION Qualifiers from all the Regional Heats - More... |
| PROMOTING NEW LAMB New Seasons Scotch Lamb poster available to SFMTA members - More... |
| 2006 BEEF SAUSAGES AND BLACK PUDDING COMPETITION Results from the South West Scotland heats in Castle Douglas - More... |
| 2006 BEEF SAUSAGES AND BLACK PUDDING COMPETITION Results of the East Region heats - More... |
| 2006 BEEF SAUSAGE AND BLACK PUDDING CHAMPIONSHIP Results of the West of Scotland heats - More... |
| 2006 BEEF SAUSAGE AND BLACK PUDDING COMPETITIONS Qualifiers from the South East of Scotland heats - More... |
| 2006 BEEF SAUSAGES & BLACK PUDDING COMPETITIONS Results of the North of Scotland heats - More... |
| 2006 SCOTCH PIE CLUB AWARDS The World Scotch Pie Club presented their 2006 Awards on St Andrews Day. The best placed butcher's Scotch Pie was the runner up submitted by Jim Hastie, 36 Commercial Street, Markinch, Fife. - More... |
| 2005 SCOTTISH MEAT CHALLENGE All the results from Scottish Butchers Big Event - the Scottish Meat Challenge held at Lauder College, Dunfermline on Tuesday 20th September. - More... |
QMS MEAT DISPLAY COMPETITION Final of this competition was held in Perth on Sunday 8th May. The winning display was by John Saunderson Ltd. Edinburgh. - More... |
| THE 2005 SCOTTISH PORK SAUSAGE CHAMPION Scotland's Oldest butcher, Jim Pirie (86) of Newtyle won both the Pork Sausage and Haggis Championship on 8th May at the Scottish Meat Trade Fair. - More... |
| TRADE FAIR WINNERS Results update from a very busy day at Scotland's Premier event for craft butchers. - More... |
| MAKE IT WITH MEAT AWARD WINNERS The Spring 2005 Evaluations attracted 179 entries. The results:- - More... |
| BUTCHERS LICENSING REPEALED Butchers lead the way with HACCP - More... |
| BUTCHER WINS WORLD SCOTCH PIE TITLE Paul Boyle's Boghall Pies are best, it's official - More... |
MAKE IT WITH MEAT AWARDS 2004 Presentations were made on Wednesday 22nd September at the Scotch Meat Challenge at Ingliston- More... |
BEST BEEF SAUSAGES AND BEST BLACK PUDDING 2004 Best Scottish Beef Sausage and Best Scottish Black Pudding Competition; the results. - More... |
END OF AN ERA Training and Development Manager Moira Brady retired at the end of June after 24 years service with the Federation. President Mark Barnett made this tribute at the June Executive Meeting: - More... |
| SCOTTISH INDEPENDENT BUTCHERS SING FOR THEIR SUPPER A major new campaign designed to encourage more people to visit their local butcher was launched on Friday 28th May 2004. - More... |
| MEAT SKILLS FINALISTS 2004 The overall talent found in this year’s competition was of an extremely high standard and continually improving year on year. This is proving to be the arena for those forward thinking butchers who want to display their knife skills and innovation by presenting an array of visually appealing products to their customers. - More... |
| PRODUCT EVALUATION SPRING 2004 All the results from the evaluation at the James Watt College, Greenock held in February 2004 - More... |
| NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS Dick Van Leeuwen from the Meat and Livestock Commission worked closely with Lucas Ingredients and RAPS UK to bring you some new ideas for your existing and potential new customers. The workshops supported were partially funded from the European Social Fund. - More... |
WORLD SCOTCH PIE CHAMPIONSHIPS Best Scotch Pie went to Alan Devlin of Sugar and Spice in Auchterarder. Alan, formerly a chef at Tormaukin Hotel is supplied by local butcher John McCallum. - More... |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS President Mark re-elected to serve for one further year at the AGM in Pitlochry on Sunday 16th November.
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2003 SCOTTISH HAGGIS CHAMPIONSHIPS As decided at the competition held at the Scottish Meat Trades Fair in Perth on Sunday 7th September 2003:-
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| 2003 PORK SAUSAGE CHAMPIONSHIPS The Scottish Pork Sausage Championship for 2003 was decided at the Scottish Meat Trades Fair in Perth. The winners are as follows:- - More... |
2003 DIAMOND AWARDS Three new products which will be promoted through the shops of SFMTA members.
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| 2003 GOLD AWARD WINNERS Make it with Meat Awards held in conjunction with Quality Meat Scotland - More... |
| 2003 SILVER AWARD WINNERS Silver Awards- 2003 - More... |
| 2003 BRONZE AWARD WINNERS Bronze Awards 2003 - More... |
| SCOTTISH MEAT TRADE FAIR Sponsored by William Sword Ltd. Sunday 7th September 2003 at the Dewars Rink, Perth. Trade stands, Haggis and Kerry Lucas Pork Sausage Competitions. Meat Skills 2003 and Make it with Meat presentations. Demos by Danny Upson of Kerry Lucas and David Brough of Dalziel Ltd. Fair opens at 10.00am - More... |
| PRESIDENT 2002-04 Leven Butcher Mark Barnett has been elected the President of the Scottish Federation of Meat Traders. Butchers from all over Scotland gathered in Lundin Links this week for
their Annual General Meeting and to install their youngest President since 1973.
Mark (38) trades under the name of W Simpson & Sons in the towns High Street where he started as a sixteen-year-old Youth Training Scheme trainee in 1980. - More... |
| PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Address to AGM Sunday 17th November 2002 - More... |
| CONSULTATION SUBMISSION MLC / QMS Comment from SFMTA to Scottish Executive regards Proposal for QMS to take over MLC services in Scotland. - More... |
| SFAC REPORT INTO FARMERS MARKET SURVEY Scottish butchers have carefully scrutinised the recent report on the survey by the Scottish Food Advisory Committee into Farmers Markets in Scotland. - More... |
| MR. PRESIDENT 2001-02 Greenock Butcher takes the chain - More... |
| PRESIDENT DUNCAN MACKENZIE- INAUGURAL SPEECH - More... |
| CHIEFTAIN O THE PUDDIN RACE Held at the 2001 Scottish Meat Trade Fair in Perth on 9th September 100 butchers from throughout Scotland (and even some from England) competed for one of the most coveted titles in the business. And the winner is... - More... |
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