date:Dec 05, 2012
The news last month that Vion is to sell its UK food businesses, covering 38 sites and employing 13,000 people is a sure sign that the UK's meat supply chain is in crisis.
Vion was once held up as an exemplar for how a meat business should operate: from farm through abattoir to manufacture a vertically integrated business in control of all its supply chain costs.
Today that argument appears to be in tatters, although several City analysts have suggested that it was Vion's purchase of the troub