About Us

Putting the customer at the heart of everything we do

We are Dawn Farms.

Established in 1985, Dawn Farms is a family-owned company and the largest B2B specialist supplier of pre- cooked meat, plant protein, fermented and dried sausage ingredients outside of the U.S. The company currently supplies the world’s leading food brands across more than 50 international markets throughout the UK, Europe, The Middle East, Asia and Africa. Dawn Farms offers a safe, quality, on-trend product solution in the pizza and sandwich categories to the best loved brands in the Fast Casual and Quick Service restaurant sectors, delivered from their state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Ireland, Germany and the U.K. 

A Full-Service Solution

Supplying leading brands in the pizza, sandwich, snack and prepared meal sectors

Dawn Farms offers a full-service solution to B2B customers in the pizza, sandwich, snack and prepared meal sectors. All products are produced in state-of-the-art facilities, which include two production sites in Ireland, both of which are certified Halal and have been awarded BRC AA status. Our facility in Northampton is the largest cooked bacon facility in the U.K. Located at a state-of-the-art production facility in the town of Nonnweiler-Otzenhausen in Saarland, Germany, Haas produces a range of cooked, cured meats including beef, pork, ham and dried sausage products – salami and pepperoni – primarily for the Pizza Sector. Dawn Farms is a founding member of Bord Bia’s Origin Green sustainability programme and has achieved ISO 50001 Accreditation, is BRC Grade AA and Sedex approved.

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Dawn Farms at a glance

Years

industry experience

Talented People

in our workforce

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of collective expertise

Markets

where our products are sold

Retail & foodservice outlets

across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia & Africa 

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Free From

artificial colours, hydrogenated and trans fats, non-sustainable palm oil, nuts and MSG

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Habibi - Premium Halal Cooked Meats - by Dawn Farms

Product Capabilities

Great ingredients make great food

“Great ingredients make great food” — and that tells you everything you need to know about the values of our business. Everyone in our company is there for one reason: to meet the needs of our customers. We provide a full menu solution across cooked as well as fermented and dried meat and plant-based ingredients for pizza, sandwich and prepared meal applications.

Food innovation is an essential element of our business and every facility offers a best-in-class science and innovation centre. Every recipe we develop begins with the best ‘better for you’ ingredients. Our team of highly experienced chefs work closely with our food scientists to create innovative flavoursome ingredients which are a natural source of protein. All our products are 100% free from artificial colours, hydrogenated and trans fats, non-sustainable palm oil, nuts and MSG, and have complete farm to fork traceability.

A chef adds a piece of Dawn Farms crispy cooked bacon to a stacked beef burger.
An array of Dawn Farms bacon ingredients on a wooden platter showing different levels of cooking, from crispy to soft and juicy.
A chef in the Dawn Farms test kitchen puts to the finishing touches to an array of small flour tortillas with different flavour combinations, including Beef Barbacoa and Slow Cooked Chicken Tinga.

Key Value-Adding Activities

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Insight-Led Innovation

 

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Food Safety & Quality

 

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Sustainability

 

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Lean Thinking

 

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Digital Leadership

 

State-of-the-art Facilities

Continuous investment in innovative cooking technologies

We employ lean thinking across all of our sites to facilitate continuous improvement of our processes and ensure we remain competitive and agile. In our Science & Innovation centres we are reconnecting the time-honoured traditions of butchery, shaped by modern technology, with a common purpose to deliver tasty, naturally high-protein ingredients to our customers.

A man in a white coat and blue hairnet supervises a high-tech touchscreen device in the Dawn Farms state-of-the-art processing facilities.
A man in a white coat, hairnet and hard hat examines hanging fermented meats in a large curing room.
A female employee in white overalls, ear protection and a blue hairnet supervises a machine in Dawn Farms' start-of-the-art facilities.

Building sustainable multi-level, multi-disciplinary relationships with the world’s leading food brands