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Stewart Houston CBE, BPEX
Chairman
Stewart is an AHDB Board Member and became Chairman of BPEX Ltd upon its creation, having also chaired its predecessor. Stewart, who is based in Bedale, North Yorkshire is also Chairman of NPA and a member of COPA COGECA EU committee of agricultural trade associations. |
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Adam Couch, Cranswick Country Food
Adam joined Cranswick in 1991 as a graduate trainee from Hull University, where he graduated in accountancy. Adam was appointed a director in 2003 and is managing director of the fresh pork operations. |
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Steve Crossley
Steve has worked in the meat and further processed food industry for almost 30 yrs.He has held senior positions in Unigate(Sales and Marketing Director for Malton Foods Group)and Northern Foods(as Managing Director of a number of business units including Pork Farms Bowyers before becoming a member of the Operating Board with responsibility for the Chilled Foods Division).Steve is currently Managing Director of Grampian Country Pork and a member of Grampian's Senior Management Team.” |
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Jon Easey, MJ & JA Easey
Jon Easey was born in Suffolk in 1968 and went to school
in Hoxne and Framlingham. He read Agricultural Economics
at the University of Reading then moved to London working
in the wine trade. Jon progressed to the beer sector
working as a Brand and Marketing Manager for a major
national brewery where he developed a unique insight
by spearheading national advertising and promotional
campaigns such as Castlemaine XXXX. In 1996, he returned to East Anglia, joining the family
business, MJ & JA Easey, running an integrated pig
scheme comprising 11,500 sows (as well as finishing
up to 8,000 pigs a week), a feed mill, veterinary practice
and arable farm. Jon has endeavoured hard to direct
industry policy and lobby government from the fringes. |
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Clive Francis
Clive joined BPEX in July 2007 and formally becomes the independent member of the new Board from 1st April 2008.He has held a number of senior roles in the food industry, more recently with Associated British Foods and British Sugar.He now carries out consultancy work and lectures on business at the University of East Anglia. He holds degrees from Nottingham and Bath Universities |
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John Godfrey, CBE, FCA, FRAgS
Born in a North Lincolnshire farming family, John Godfrey qualified as a chartered accountant in 1971 before returning to the family farming business. Now he and his brother manage an arable and pig enterprise in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. He has been Chairman NPA, Chair of BPA, Chair of FABpigs, Vice Chair of Yorkshire Farmers Livestock Marketing Ltd, Chair of Grimsby Birds Eye pea growers committee, and Chair of the North Lindsey branch of the NFU.Currently he is Chair of Riseholme Park Farms Ltd and Chair of Pig Industry Development Scheme and is still active in a number of agricultural organisations. In addition he is currently President of the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society and President of Scunthorpe United Football Club.He received the David Black award in 1997, was awarded the CBE in 1998 and in 2004 was elected a Fellow of Royal Agricultural Societies. |
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John Hughes Daleheads Foods
John is from a farming background and joined Dalehead in 1973 as Livestock Buyer, he became MD in 1999.
Through a merger with Roach Foods in 1999 and the acquisition of BQP in 2000, the new Company achieved a long held ambition to become a major integrator from pig production through to ‘shelf ready’ retail packed pork and pig meat products.
In 2004 Dalehead and Roach were acquired by Tulip, a division of Danish Crown. |
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Richard Longthorp, LKL Farming
Richard
Longthorp farms 1,800 acres at Howden in East Yorks with contract operations covering a further 2,000 acres. He has 1,300 outdoor sows at Retford, Nottinghamshire, and all the progeny is taken to bacon weight. The pigs are all produced under the high welfare Freedom Foods scheme.
As well as being a member of the BPEX Shadow Board, he is a former member of the NPA Producer Group, former Chairman, of the NPA, active in BPISG , Chairman, Pig Industry Training Strategy Implementation Group, member of Rotary and former Captain and Chairman of Selby RUFC which he says is a particularly useful part of the CV for operating in the UK Pig Industry. |
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John Rowbottom, Melrose Pigs Ltd
John has a long association with the pig industry through
the family's 750 sow farrow to finish pig enterprise
based in Yorkshire. He is a member of the National Pig
Association Producer Group and a Board member. In addition
to the pig enterprise the family farming business also
includes arable and a grass drying enterprise. In the
past John has owned businesses as diverse as the manufacture
of explosives and the extraction of chlorophyl from
grass for human consumption. John is a former President
of the British Association of Green Crop Dryers. |
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Mike Sheldon, Greenway Farms Ltd
A 520 sow intensive pig unit in Buckinghamshire, producing
slaughter pigs for a national processing company. From 1998-1999 the first Chief Executive of the National
Pig Association (NPA), formed as the first united trade association
for the UK pork industry. From 1982-1995 working in
various roles for
PIC, the worldwide pig genetics company. |
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Meryl Ward, Grayingham Grange Farm
Meryl runs a family farming enterprise comprising 2,000 sows, finished pigs, a mixed arable enterprise and farm shop.Her current roles include treasurer of BPISG, a member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council and is a governor of Harper Adams University College
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