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Top 25 Meat processing companies based in the United Kingdom
This directory lists 194 meat processing companies based in the United Kingdom, with 5,564 business contacts and 1,628 email addresses. London is the single most-represented city among the companies listed, and the directory was updated in September 2026.
Meat processing companies slaughter, cut, trim, season, cook, preserve, or package meat for wholesale, foodservice, retail, or further manufacturing. This list covers companies that slaughter, cut, trim, season, cook, preserve, package, or otherwise prepare meat for commercial sale or use. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 7, 2026.
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The 25 largest meat processing companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indirect evidence | 1,707 contacts → | |||
“Pilgrim’s Europe is a top UK and European food company with 40+ sites in the UK, Ireland, France and The Netherlands.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Indirect evidence | 939 contacts → | |||
“Dunbia is one of Europe’s leading food companies.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Indirect evidence | 525 contacts → | |||
“Established in 1950 Bernard Matthews Foods is an iconic brand, delivering British, locally reared produce to UK consumers.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Indirect evidence | 437 contacts → | |||
“Sofina Foods Europe is a key player in the food industry, specialising in pork and seafood production.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Indirect evidence | 305 contacts → | |||
“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: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Strong evidence | 127 contacts → | |||
“ABP Linden Dungannon is a market leader within the Northern Ireland fresh meat processing industry, sourcing and processing top quality beef and lamb.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Partial evidence | 86 contacts → | |||
“Fairfax Meadow have been supplying great meat for over 50 years.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Partial evidence | 81 contacts → | |||
“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: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Indirect evidence | 67 contacts → | |||
“With well over a century of farming and butchery expertise, pork and beef are our speciality.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Indirect evidence | 63 contacts → | |||
“Maelor Foods Ltd is the newly formed sister Company to privately owned Salisbury Poultry (Midlands) Ltd which has been established since 1989.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Partial evidence | 51 contacts → | |||
“GPS FOOD GROUP offer a comprehensive range of meat protein products sourced via our global network of supply partners.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Partial evidence | 49 contacts → | |||
“One of Europe’s leading manufacturers of sausage and meat products, the Blakeman family has supplied domestic and export catering and fast food markets for over 60 years.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Partial evidence | 47 contacts → | |||
“Oakfield Foods is a leading meat import and export company, offering a range of food products including poultry, beef, lamb, pork, fish and vegetables.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Partial evidence | 44 contacts → | |||
“For over a century, Weddel Swift Trading has supplied meat to the catering, food service, manufacturing, retail and wholesale industries.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Partial evidence | 43 contacts → | |||
“Thurne offers a comprehensive range of industrial slicing and portioning systems for fresh and precooked bacon and case ready meat applications.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Partial evidence | 40 contacts → | |||
“Yorkshire Premier Meat Ltd operate an EU approved meat preparation plant at South Kirkby in South Yorkshire dedicated to supplying the meat manufacturing industry with specially…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Partial evidence | 35 contacts → | |||
“World class meat producer, C&K Meats is at the forefront of the East Anglian meat industry and a major UK player.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Partial evidence | 34 contacts → | |||
“The countries Leading Meat Wholesaler” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Indirect evidence | 31 contacts → | |||
“Morliny Foods provides market-leading brands and private-label solutions in numerous countries across the globe.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Indirect evidence | 30 contacts → | |||
“Wholly owned subsidiary of JBS.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Partial evidence | 28 contacts → | |||
“Bawnbua Foods is a leading UK and Irish supplier of primal, valued-added, and cooked meat products to the retail, food service and food manufacturing sectors in the UK, Ireland…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 28 contacts → | |||
“Pilgrim’s Pride Ltd.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Indirect evidence | 26 contacts → | |||
“Althams Butchers is one of the oldest and largest independent family owned and run butchers in the country.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Partial evidence | 25 contacts → | |||
“Tom Hixson of Smithfield is a meat importers, butchers and trading company comprising of Tom Hixson & Co and A&B Catering Butchers.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Partial evidence | 22 contacts → | |||
“Located in the heart of Devon, we at Dartmouth Foods are the leading UK processors of premium, slow-cooked roast-on-the-bone meats.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 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 processing companies. 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 processing companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of meat processing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name meat processing companies. 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 processing companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
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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 processing companies, 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 processing companies”. 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 processing companies), 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 processing companies, 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, 1,628 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 7, 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.
Frequently asked
What do meat processing companies do?
Meat processing companies prepare meat by slaughtering, cutting, trimming, seasoning, cooking, preserving, or packaging it for commercial use.
How many meat processing companies are based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase counts 194 meat processing companies listed based in the United Kingdom, with 5,564 business contacts and 1,628 email addresses.
Which city has the most meat processing companies?
London is the single most-represented city among the companies on this list.
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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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