Banham Poultry is a British poultry producer, based in
Attleborough
Attleborough is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish located on the A11 road (England), A11 between Norwich and Thetford in Norfolk, England. The parish is in the district of Breckland (district), Breckland and has an area ...
,
Norfolk
Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...
, with an annual turnover of £100 million.
In 2018, the company was put up for sale;
a few days later, two pest control contractors were found dead near the Banham site.
The company has more than 1,000 employees.
The company was bought by Chesterfield Poultry in October 2018.
In late October 2021, Banham Poultry was bought by the Boparan Private Office, owner of poultry processor
2 Sisters Food Group
2 Sisters Food Group, a subsidiary of Boparan Holdings Ltd, is a privately owned food manufacturing company with head offices in Birmingham, England primarily focusing on private label manufacturing for retailer and food service markets. Esta ...
and
Bernard Matthews
Bernard Trevor Matthews CVO CBE QSM (24 January 1930 – 25 November 2010) was the founder of Bernard Matthews Foods, a company that is best known for producing turkey meat products.
Early life
Matthews was born in 1930 in Brooke, Norfolk, ...
.
In September 2022, Branham Poultry was fined £300,000 for environmental permit violations after over 300 complaints were made regarding the strong odours of rotting carcasses. The company pleaded guilty to failing to keep activities free from odour levels likely to cause pollution outside the abattoir between January 2019 and September 2021. The judge acknowledged practices at Banham Poultry had a "significant effect on the quality of life" in the town.
References
Poultry companies
Meat companies of the United Kingdom
Food brands of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Norfolk
Food and drink companies of the United Kingdom
Poultry farming in the United Kingdom
External links
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