Product nominations and awards voting are currently still live online for this year’s Meat Management Meat Industry Awards and will finally close on Friday 12th June.
The meat sector’s biggest annual awards initiative is well underway and set to once again celebrate the very best across the UK and Irish meat industry.
Businesses that nominate products will then be contacted in advance of this year’s product delivery day (Tuesday 23rd June) with information covering how to send products for judging to the Regional Food Academy, based at Harper Adams University, Shropshire.
Nominating and entering products is free of charge, and businesses can submit unlimited nominations across all categories.
Product nominations can be submitted for the following:
- Best Bacon Product
- Best Beef Product
- Best Free From Product
- Best Lamb Product
- Best Pork / Pigmeat Product
- Best Charcuterie Product
- Best Poultry Product
- Best Red Meat Product
- Britain’s Best Burger
- Britain’s Best Meat Pie
- Britain’s Best Sausage
To nominate products, click here.
A full list of all categories including the voting options, plus additional information, is available online. Go to www.meatmanagement.com/awards.
TV chaser Paul Sinha to be VIP guest
Following a convivial drinks and networking reception, and black-tie dinner, comedian and TV quiz Chaser Paul Sinha will take to the stage as VIP guest host at this year’s ceremony in September. Click here to read the story.
Graham Yandell MBE of Meat Management magazine said: “We are delighted that Paul can be with us on 3rd September for the meat awards ceremony and dinner. He’s a very funny person, and I am sure will raise a few laughs at this year’s event.
“However, more immediately, now is the time for meat manufacturers, processors, suppliers, foodservice, retailers and butchers to nominate products. I am sure that once again we shall see some fantastic products both new and traditional coming through for evaluation.”
- The 2026 meat awards ceremony and black-tie dinner will be held on the evening of Thursday 3rd September at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, near to the NEC.
- For more information about the 2026 Meat Management Meat Industry Awards, visit www.meatmanagement.com/awards.
- For details of how to become a meat industry awards partner, contact Michelle Ingerfield: michelle.i@yandellmedia.com.
The official meat awards partners for 2026:
