The factory in my experience is a potential goldmine if it’s run correctly and there’s any amount of different ways to make it work minor alterations and your good to kill 150 cattle a day minimum or if it was sheep you could have a line doing 1000 per day just lets hope someone buys it because it’s a little goldmine ready to finish
Blackbrow abattoir for sale
- Thread starter Warrior+1
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Black Brow Abattoir, Aikton, Wigton, Cumbria CA7 0JT - Edwin Thompson
www.edwinthompson.co.uk
Put together a consortium of farmers and buy it to run as a producers co operative.
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
A farmer group could take that on fairly easily couldn't they?
There's always plenty of 'what to do with my money' threads on here.
It's only a few buy to let houses.
There's always plenty of 'what to do with my money' threads on here.
It's only a few buy to let houses.
- Location
- East Sussex
Before putting in good money to an abattoir there needs to be a number of different questions answered.
Why is it so cheap? Does it need a lot of money spent on it? It looks quite modern from the exterior.
Why did it shut?
How far away are the next abattoirs?
Who would the main customers be?
Does it have a cutting plant and anyone to run it?
How far to the main customers? Is it near the motorway network.
How good is the access for artics? Is there room for lots of small vehicles and trailers. (Hobby farmers tend to take a long time to unload!)
Are there any wholesalers who could use it as their principle premises and have links to export markets?
Is it possible to get staff to run it?
And probably the most important question, how much more will livestock decline in the local area??
Why is it so cheap? Does it need a lot of money spent on it? It looks quite modern from the exterior.
Why did it shut?
How far away are the next abattoirs?
Who would the main customers be?
Does it have a cutting plant and anyone to run it?
How far to the main customers? Is it near the motorway network.
How good is the access for artics? Is there room for lots of small vehicles and trailers. (Hobby farmers tend to take a long time to unload!)
Are there any wholesalers who could use it as their principle premises and have links to export markets?
Is it possible to get staff to run it?
And probably the most important question, how much more will livestock decline in the local area??
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
Yes lots of questions but just because a business is for sale doesn't mean it's in trouble, it can be just because the owner wants out.
If and it's a big if everything checks out it would be good to see it bought by a farming group.
Don't suppose it will happen though.
I think its a retirement sale
livestock 1
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It would be great if it could be bought by a farmer or a group of farmers. It would probably be long to medium term pain for longer term gain at best at worst well that’s not worth thinking about.
Slaughterhouses seem to run large debts and are hungry things to feed. It would need all to be focused to carry it through and more importantly have enough cash to do it
Slaughterhouses seem to run large debts and are hungry things to feed. It would need all to be focused to carry it through and more importantly have enough cash to do it
5+ acre site, lots of hardstanding, several buildings..£700k? what's not to like?
Eh? you want it to remain an abattoir?
Oh.
Sadly, farmers goals would be to generate as much revenue for the infeed as possible (however you dress that up), whereas an abattoir needs to secure infeed as cheaply as possible to compete the other end.
I long ago saw that however good a farmer you might be, it ain't the same as running another business.
Eh? you want it to remain an abattoir?
Oh.
I've seen a various farmer groups think they're going to set the job on fire....and it'd be great to see one work.
Sadly, farmers goals would be to generate as much revenue for the infeed as possible (however you dress that up), whereas an abattoir needs to secure infeed as cheaply as possible to compete the other end.
I long ago saw that however good a farmer you might be, it ain't the same as running another business.
Netherfield
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- West Yorkshire
My mate once ran a slaughterhouse, book 50 cattle and 200 lambs 200 pigs in, two of the men don't turn up for work that day, or the vet doesn't turn up, then the main butcher/cutter hands in his notice.
The bins are overflowing with bones and guts, the firm who come to collect have a truck broken down can't get for another 2 days at least, fridge breaks down and no engineers available to fix it, and then your biggest customer doesn't pay and the banks on your back for breaching the overdraft.
Two months later he said sod this and quit himself.
The bins are overflowing with bones and guts, the firm who come to collect have a truck broken down can't get for another 2 days at least, fridge breaks down and no engineers available to fix it, and then your biggest customer doesn't pay and the banks on your back for breaching the overdraft.
Two months later he said sod this and quit himself.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Ive used that slaughterhouse a few times , is it closed currently ?
kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
It wouldn’t be easy of course and farmers may have better ways to make more money but at the end of the day it’s just a business with its own set of problems.
The reason I mention farmer ownership is it should be looked at as an outlet for their stock. It wouldn’t need to make a fortune if it allowed an alternative market, the same way a long term grain store or pack house works for cropping farmers.
If no one else will do it and you want to keep stock farming maybe someone has to bite the bullet. Needs a good plant manager to run it.
I was told last week it closes middle of this month if it is'nt sold by then, think the owner is in his 70's and is retiring.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Ah i see , wouldnt surprise me if it ends up houses be a miracle if it continues.
livestock 1
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I know a fella that has done it. It’s been hard for a long time but doing well now.
- Location
- Cheshire
It’s not the running of the plant that would be the major scotch to a farmers co op buying it. I think it would be marketing the product at the other end. Red meat trade is cut throat and run by proper crooks. It’s alright having our own processing facilities but when the firms buying from you just don’t pay you’re pretty buggered
livestock 1
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My biggest fear would be being squeezed by the existing ones. They really won’t want to see it up and running
All agreeing would be another downfall I think