Meat+Poultry - January 2022 - 21

A
fter the second full year of an
international health pandemic,
food safety and sanitation
are top of mind for processors
throughout the meat and poultry
industry. As processors plan ahead
for 2022, allocating dollars for capital
improvement and expansion, it's no
surprise to see that 58% of processors
in MEAT+POULTRY's 2021-2022
Industry Outlook Study plan to focus
their 2022 capital investments on
improving food safety and sanitation.
" For meat processors, the main
driver of the capital investment
plans that they have is to improve
food safety, " said Marjorie Hellmer,
president of Cypress Research. " It's
always an important driving issue in
food processing and in meat processing
plants too, but I believe that it has
achieved a higher priority this time,
ranked against other goals, due to the
context of this global health crisis. "
The goal of the 2021-2022 Industry
Outlook Study was to track business
outlook and capital spending
trends among meat and poultry
processors. This year's study was
commissioned by MEAT+POULTRY
in collaboration with the North
American Meat Institute (NAMI) and
conducted in September and October
2021 by Kansas City, Mo.-based
Cypress Research. The collaboration
allowed for a representative sample
of industry professionals, from
the MEAT+POULTRY readership
and NAMI membership, for use in
the research.
STUDY PARTICIPANTS
The September and October online
survey included 460 respondents from
the meat and poultry industry - 88%
were in the processing or further
processing segment of the industry
and 46% of respondents were from
businesses involved in slaughter/
fabrication. Because respondents
could indicate more than one species
their company slaughters and/or
processes, 75% of respondents are in
involved with beef; 74% from the pork
side; 62% work with poultry; 23% are
involved with lamb; 14% process veal
and 7% process seafood.
The professionals responding to
the study were from companies of all
sizes. Twenty-nine percent represented
companies with sales of $500 million
or more; 20% represented $100 million
to $499 million companies; 14%
represented $50 million to $99 million
companies; and 37% of respondents
were from smaller companies with
annual gross sales revenues of less than
$50 million.
The professionals responding
to the survey mostly represented
corporate management, plant
operations and production and sales
and marketing positions within their
prospective companies.
" These are professionals in key
decision-making roles for their
Species slaughtered and/or processed
Beef
Pork
Poultry
Lamb
Veal
Seafood 7%
(Multiple responses accepted)
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14%
74%
75%
62%
23%
Annual gross
sales revenue
37% Less than $50 mil
29% $500 mil or more than
20% $100 mil to $499 mil
14% $50 mil to $99 mil
Job title
39% Corporate management/admin
20% Plant operations/production
17% Sales marketing
14% Food safety
5% Purchasing/procurement
3% Other (HR, legal)
(Not all respondents answered question)
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