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Top 25 Meat distributors based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 698 meat distributors headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 11,785 professional contacts across them, including 2,574 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers meat distributors headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest meat distributors based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,707 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pilgrim’s Europe is a top UK and European food company with 40+ sites in the UK, Ireland, France and The Netherlands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 885 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to enjoy chef quality ingredients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 525 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1950 Bernard Matthews Foods is an iconic brand, delivering British, locally reared produce to UK consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 425 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Karro, part of Sofina Foods Europe, is a leading producer of both fresh and cooked pork products in the UK and Ireland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 305 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With more than 40 years of expertise in the beef slaughtering and deboning industry, Foyle Food Group operate nine state-of-the-art facilities across six sites throughout the UK…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From our main depot at Cross Hands, and four satellite depots at Avonmouth, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Chirk and Merthyr Tydfil, we service the length and breadth of Wales, the Welsh…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in Yorkshire in 1997, Dovecote Park is proud to supply the very finest British beef, veal and venison to Waitrose supermarkets nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ABP Linden Dungannon is a market leader within the Northern Ireland fresh meat processing industry, sourcing and processing top quality beef and lamb.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bacon at its best; So good you can almost taste it, right here, right now.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1862 our business was founded by Joseph Sykes, trading fresh and frozen seafood from Old Smithfield Market in the heart of Manchester; Sykes Seafood has come a long way since…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We search the globe to find exceptional producers and farms that take pride in their produce, from the everyday basics to the most exotic elements of your dish.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Donald Russell is a quality food business with a heritage in butchery based in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a business built on quality and service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fairfax Meadow have been supplying great meat for over 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a family-owned business with more than 100 years of experience in supplying high-quality meat to the UK retail sector, foodservice, and export markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Turner Price is an established and trusted family owned business continuously achieving progressive growth within the delivered food whole sales sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MJ Birtwistle & Co is a rapidly expanding successful group that encompasses all aspects of the meat trade, which is achieving significant growth organically and by acquisition.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With well over a century of farming and butchery expertise, pork and beef are our speciality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Campbells supply fresh meat, fish and deli produce to business customers all over Scotland, including many of Scotland's best restaurants, Nick Nairn's cook schools and numerous…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sourcing the right meat and cheese in the right way for the right people is what we are all about.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Golden Acre, we specialise in importing and distributing great food from around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Purveyors of the finest quality Meat Products since 1979” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Braehead Foods is one of Scotland’s largest independent food wholesalers and have been supplying Chefs across the UK and Europe with the finest quality ingredients for 20 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GPS FOOD GROUP offer a comprehensive range of meat protein products sourced via our global network of supply partners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: meat distributors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names meat distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of meat distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name meat distributors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Meat distributors based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 698 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among meat distributors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “meat distributors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names meat distributors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among meat distributors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,574 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Meat distributors by metro
- Meat distributors in London77
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names meat distributors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many meat distributors are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 698 meat distributors headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Pilgrim's Europe, headquartered in Uxbridge, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most meat distributors?
London leads with 77 headquartered companies, followed by Glasgow (13) and Manchester (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,574 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 698 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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