Covid outbreak at Cranswick meat plant as 144 staff catch virus – just days after 75 workers test positive at nearby Bernard Matthews factory Norfolk County Council said there had been a ‘significant outbreak’ of Covid-19 Coronavirus outbreak has hit Cranswick Country Foods site in Watton, Norfolk 300 members of staff at the factory have … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Poultry firm Cranswick lays a golden egg as Britons consume 20m chickens every week By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:54 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 22 August 2020 Britons consume 20million chickens and several hundred thousand pigs every week. During lockdown, we ate even more. … Read more
Shares in Cranswick rose yesterday after the meat producer revealed the lockdown had bulked up its sales. The company, which owns farms and supplies pork and chicken to UK grocers, is emerging as one of the business winners from the coronavirus pandemic. It said sales were turbo-charged by the ‘shift towards greater in-home consumption’ during … Read more