Bernard Matthews Farms
Bernard Matthews Farms Ltd is a British farming and food products business, which specialises in the farming of turkeys. Founded by Bernard Matthews in 1950, as Bernard Matthews Foods Ltd, the company is headquartered in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and has 56 farms throughout Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire farming nearly 7 million turkeys each year. The company breeds and rears both indoor and free range turkeys on its farms, making Bernard Matthews an integrated agricultural business.
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