Industry Structure
England Abattoir Numbers
| SIZE ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH PIG ABATTOIRS IN 2012 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Size Group | Abattoir | Total | Average | Throughput |
| Numbers | Throughput | Throughput | Share | |
| head | head | head | % | |
| 1-10,000 | 79 | 250,398 | 3,170 | 3.0 |
| 10,001-30,000 | 21 | 396,203 | 18,867 | 4.8 |
| 30,001-100,000 | 7 | 368,116 | 52,588 | 4.5 |
| 100,001-500,000 | 7 | 1,668,544 | 238,363 | 20.3 |
| >500,001 | 7 | 5,540,798 | 791,543 | 67.4 |
| Total | 121 | 8,224,059 | 67,967 | 100.0 |
| ABATTOIRS IN ENGLAND | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | |
| Red meat abattoirs | ||||||||||||
| All red meat abattoirs | 250 | 246 | 246 | 233 | 226 | 224 | 218 | 210 | 209 | 202 | 198 | 195 |
| Pig abattoirs | ||||||||||||
| Total pig abattoirs | 166 | 164 | 164 | 155 | 147 | 143 | 140 | 131 | 128 | 124 | 125 | 121 |
| Pig slaughterings (000 head) | 8,753 | 8,217 | 7,259 | 7,302 | 7,147 | 7,222 | 7,386 | 7,367 | 7,130 | 7,345 | 7,769 | 8,224 |
| Average throughput (000 head) | 52.7 | 50.1 | 44.3 | 47.1 | 48.6 | 50.5 | 52.8 | 56.2 | 55.7 | 59.2 | 62.2 | 68.0 |
| Specialist pig abattoirs* | 19 | 20 | 18 | 20 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 14 |
| * Included in total pig abattoirs | ||||||||||||
| Last updated: 18 July 2013 | ||||||||||||
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