About us
A family business, built over more than 70 years on selecting the best beef and lamb.
Our family
More than 70 years of selecting the best beef and lamb for our customers.
- The beginning
Rutherglen, Scotland
More than three generations ago, our grandfather founded the business from humble beginnings in Rutherglen.
- Our shops
Serving southern Glasgow
When he passed away in his early fifties, his wife Marjorie and their son Tom ran our shops for another 15 years. For over three decades, they served the families of southern Glasgow.
- The 1980s
A new direction
Our late father, Thomas Clement McKnight, and his sister Helen began deboning and packing Scottish beef in a purpose-built plant, designed to meet the demands of fast-growing supermarkets.
- Today
Across the UK and Europe
Thomas McKnight & Daughters Ltd. serves retail, wholesale and manufacturing customers in the UK and Europe, selecting the very best beef and lamb, because that is what our customers have always expected from us.
Our farmers
Our farm lies within sight of the Shropshire Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty near Church Stretton, a town the Victorians called “Little Switzerland” for its alpine-like hills and chocolate-box cottages.
Here, brothers Rory and James McKnight raise Aberdeen Angus and Hereford cattle the way nature intended. They began farming out of pure passion and curiosity, competing to see who could finish the best cattle for market. Today they work side by side, in the kind of harmony only brothers know.
Our system is a traditional one. It takes longer than most, because our cattle are up to 70% grass and forage fed, and the quality of our beef reflects it. Our livestock roam freely for up to 300 days a year, coming under cover only when the weather turns.
Their curiosity and dedication have produced what our customers describe as some of the best-eating beef available today.
Our livestock
Selected on merit, never on price.
Every animal is selected for quality. We work with the finest native British and continental breeds.
All our beef and lamb is sourced from the British Isles and is fully traceable to the farm of origin, where rigorous animal welfare practices are followed, in many cases exceeding regulatory requirements.
These native breeds have helped shape the world’s understanding of what high-quality beef should be.
A natural, forage-based diet of grass and grains brings each animal to its optimum. We then select carcasses by breed, age, fat cover and conformation to match each customer’s exact specifications.
Alongside continental beef, we source
- Aberdeen Angus
- Welsh Black
- Hereford
- British White
- Belted Galloway
- Red Poll
- Highland
- English Longhorn
- South Devon
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