Welsh red meat body in turmoil after two directors resign
Welsh red meat levy body Hybu Cig Cymru (HCC) – Meat Promotion Wales – is descending into chaos amid reports of internal divisions, board members and key staff leaving, Farmers Weekly understands.
The role of chairwoman Catherine Smith is coming under scrutiny after 39 months at the organisation.
Mrs Smith, who farms in Monmouthshire with her husband, took over from Kevin Roberts on 1 April 2021.
Since then, she has published 16 summary minutes of board meetings. However, since September 2022, Mrs Smith has failed to make this information public.
Farmers Weekly understands there is considerable disquiet among HCC staff at their Aberystwyth office, with the direction of the organisation under interim chief executive Heather Anstey-Myers.
Two directors have left HCC, as of 12 June. Glyn Rhys Davis, an agricultural surveyor, and Prys Morgan, procurement director for Kepak Retail, based at Merthyr Tydfil, are named on Companies House as having terminated their appointments.
HCC chief executive Gwyn Howells, who has been on gardening leave for a year, is also reported to have left his post on Friday 14 June.
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