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Online nominations for this year’s Women in Meat Industry Awards are open

9 Jun, 2025

The annual Women In Meat Industry Awards is the biggest and most important initiative that recognises the significant and growing contribution that women make across the meat sector.

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The annual Women In Meat Industry Awards is the biggest and most important initiative that recognises the significant and growing contribution that women make across the meat sector.

The 2025 campaign is now fully underway and is offering the opportunity for companies and individuals across the meat and food industry to nominate candidates.

All winners will be revealed at a 5-star ceremony and dinner later this year, which once again is taking pride of place at the prestigious Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on 21st November.

Impressionist Rory Bremner will co-host at the awards presentation ceremony together with actor, broadcaster and writer Julie Peasgood. Click here to read the story.

Nomination deadline

The online nomination process is open until Tuesday 1st July. After this initial deadline the selected finalists will go through to the online voting stage of the awards.

Editor of Meat Management magazine Gwen Mostyn commented: “The annual Women In Meat Industry Awards is incredibly popular and is exclusively driven by company or individual nominations and votes, which subsequently highlight individual people who really make a difference.

“With the 2025 campaign now underway, readers of Meat Management and the Food Management Today website, and those from the wider industry can nominate individual candidates in a range of categories. You might nominate one person or several, the main thing is to get those names put forward as soon as possible.”

Categories for 2025 are as follows:

  • Meat Businesswoman Award – Foodservice (catering butchery sector)
  • Meat Businesswoman Award – Manufacturing / Processing
  • Meat Businesswoman Award – Craft Butchery
  • Meat Businesswoman Award – Poultry 
  • Meat Businesswoman Award – Trade Body
  • Meat Businesswoman Award – Wholesaling
  • Meat Businesswoman Award – Livestock Procurement & Sustainability
  • Meat Businesswoman Award – Multiple Retailing
  • Meat Businesswoman Award – Independent Retailing
  • Meat Businesswoman Award – Industry Supplier
  • Meat Businesswoman Award – Training & Education
  • The Rising Star Award
  • Meat Businesswoman of the Year Award

If you have a colleague, manager, supplier, chief executive, butcher or if you know anyone you’d like to see acknowledged for their contribution, then nominate them now online here: www.womeninmeatawards.com.

The 2025 Women In Meat Industry Awards partners:

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