We hear a lot about veganism — it’s billed as the diet trend of the century. What we do not hear so much about is the roughly 93 per cent of Britain’s population that, according to YouGov, does still eat meat — and lots of it.
We collectively gobble 2.5 billion beefburgers and 6.1 billion rashers of bacon each year, and a significant chunk of that food will have arrived on the market via Hilton Food Group.
The FTSE 250 company produces 2.75 million packets of beef, lamb and more each week for Tesco, supplying 41 per cent of UK households from its site in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. But it has diversified since it was founded in 1994: the company now has 5,000 employees working from