Outside pig manufacturer Rob Mutimer has been re-elected as chair of the NPA to serve for some other 3 years.
Rob runs 800 sows farrow to complete, with out of doors breeding and indoor completing, in north Norfolk together with his spouse, Helen. In addition they run a wholesale butchery trade supplying round 150 pubs and different catering shops in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Rob was once first elected as chair in 2021, and within the intervening years, has instructed the affiliation via a hard 3 years for the trade. He was once elected for some other three-year time period by means of the NPA’s new-look board, when it met for the primary time closing week.
Two new NPA vice chairs have additionally been elected – Robin Lawson, MD at Rattlerow Genetics and Michelle Sprent of Premier Vitamin, who will constitute the NPA’s allied contributors. Each have already served for various years on PIG and its predecessor manufacturer and allied trade teams.
They exchange Phil Stephenson, who stays at the NPA’s Pig Business Workforce, and Hugh Crabtree, who has stepped down from PIG.
Rob stated: “It’s an honour to be elected by means of the Board to serve for some other 3 years. I’m actually hoping that the following 3 years convey higher occasions for our contributors and the broader trade than the closing 3! With the Normal Election looming and the trade present process a length of restructuring, it’s no doubt going to be a hectic time for the affiliation.
“We will be able to proceed to paintings with the Executive and the provision chain to ship equity for all in contracts and buying and selling family members, and can endeavour to make sure that any impending legislation in regards to the pig sector is proportionate, truthful and workable.
“I had puzzled whether or not it was once time for an indoor manufacturer to take over on the helm, however with Robin elected as vice-chair and a brand new PIG representing all portions of the trade, I’m very assured that the NPA will proceed to ship for all the sector.”
New board elected
The newly-elected PIG met for the primary time on Wednesday, with Yorkshire manufacturer Joe Dewhirst elected as its chair and Oliver Bown, from Thames Valley Cambac (TVC), the brand new PIG vice-chair.
Certainly one of PIG’s first duties was once to elect a brand new NPA Board. The Board in complete is:
- Rob Mutimer (NPA chair)
- Robin Lawson (vice-chair)
- Michelle Sprent (vice-chair)
- Tom Allen
- Joe Dewhirst
- Ash Gilman
- Phil Stephenson
- Tom Bradshaw (NFU president).
New PIG
The PIG, made up of 9 manufacturers and allied trade representatives, integrated various new faces, along some long-standing contributors, offering a really perfect combine of unpolluted concepts and effort and enjoy.
Manufacturers:
- Fred Allen, Nottinghamshire
- Tom Allen, Oxfordshire
- Joe Dewhirst, Yorkshire
- Ash Gilman, Cranswick, nationwide
- Robin Lawson, Suffolk
- Rob Mutimer, Norfolk
- Phil Stephenson, Yorkshire
- John Stockings, Oxfordshire
- Sam Ward, Lincolnshire.
Allied trade:
- Oliver Bown, Thames Valley Cambac (Advertising and marketing/processing)
- Andy Corridor, AM Warkup (Structures/apparatus)
- Michelle Sprent, Premier Vitamin (Vitamin/feed)
- Gemma Thwaites, Garth Pig Apply (Well being).