Our History
1904
The Thompson family has been a part of the British meat industry since 1904 when Alfred Thompson opened his first butcher shop. His son Bernard took it further and had 53 shops running successfully by the time of WW2.
1950
Bernard’s sons Peter and David joined the business in the 1950s, they developed a national wholesale network based in Smithfield going onto to create a fully integrated multisite poultry production.
1982
In 1982 Peter, the eldest, became the poultry specialist and founded the company that proudly bears his name.
2019
Today his son Stuart continues the tradition of four generations who have embraced all facets of the industry from butchery and poultry farming to market-trading and wholesale.

