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Does the New Zealand meat industry have a problem in some of our lamb products leaving consumers with a bad taste – namely ram taint?

Pure South lamb from Alliance Group is now on the menu of a growing number of five-star hotels and in high-end retail stores in India as marketing in the world’s second most populous nation gathers pace.

Alliance Group has experienced a year of challenging markets, but the business strategy is beginning to achieve results, chairman Murrat Taggart told its annual meeting yesterday.

Leading red meat processor and exporter Alliance Group has installed new beef x-ray technology at two of its plants, ensuring greater precision in packaging and labelling of meat destined for manufacturing customers.

David Surveyor, chief executive of Alliance Group, says the cooperative’s focus over the past year was on ensuring the business strategy gained traction.

Alliance Group’s business strategy is paying dividends with a $9.8 million distribution to farmer shareholders on the back of an improved financial result.

Alliance Group’s Pure South premium lamb and beef products have starred in the final of a top Asian TV network cookery competition.

Alliance Group shareholders are being encouraged to vote in the cooperative’s director election.

Hope for better lamb prices this season appear to be evaporating quicker than a summer shower.

Sheep farmers desperately looking for a lift in lamb prices this coming season may be in for more disappointment, according to Alliance Group chairman Murray Taggart.