Bernard Matthews Farms
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| Private limited company | |
| Industry |
Farming Food products |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Founder | Bernard Matthews |
| Headquarters | Great Witchingham, Norfolk, England |
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Key people
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Robert Burnett (Chief Executive Officer) |
| Products | Turkey products |
| Revenue | £341.4 million (12 months ended 1 July 2012) |
| £5.3 million (12 months ended 1 July 2012) | |
| £2.0 million (12 months ended 1 July 2012) | |
| Owner | Matthews family |
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Number of employees
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2,575 |
| Subsidiaries | Bernard Matthews Limited Bernard Matthews Oldenburg SáGa Foods |
| Website | www.bernardmatthews.com |
Bernard Matthews Holdings Ltd., trading as Bernard Matthews Ltd, is a British farming and food products business headquartered in Great Witchingham, Norfolk, England, which specialises in turkey products.
Founded by Bernard Matthews in 1950, it has 56 farms throughout Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire farming nearly 7 million turkeys each year. It also has poultry production operations in Germany and Hungary. The company breeds and rears both indoor and free range turkeys on its farms, and is an integrated agricultural business.
Bernard Matthews has three main operating companies: the United Kingdom-based Bernard Matthews Limited, the Germany-based Bernard Matthews Oldenburg, and the Hungary-based SáGa Foods.
Bernard Matthews Limited is based in the East of England and produces a range of fresh, cooked and frozen turkey products which it sells across the UK. It employs around 2,200 staff and farms around 7 million turkeys per annum. It has 56 turkey farms and two production sites located in Norfolk and Suffolk. Bernard Matthews Limited is Assured Food Standards (Red Tractor) accredited and its production sites have ISO 14001 accreditation. Jeff Halliwell has been Managing Director of Bernard Matthews Limited since June 2009.
Bernard Matthews Oldenburg is based in the north of Germany and employs around 130 staff. It produces a range of fresh, cooked and frozen poultry products which it sells across Germany and northern Europe.
SáGa Foods is based in northwest Hungary and employs around 800 staff. It produces a range of poultry products which it sells across Central Europe.
The company produces a range of cooked, fresh and frozen British turkey, including products such as oven-ready whole birds, joints, cooked re-formed meats, and meal accompaniments, which accounts for over 90% of the business. Bernard Matthews also produces chicken products which are made with meat sourced from partners in South America.
Bernard Matthews Farms produces turkey for leading UK grocery supermarket chains for use under their own retail brands, and also for businesses supplying the out-of-home foodservice market.
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