AP Jess, the Scottish meat wholesale and processing business, increased profits 12% in the latest financial year amid challenging conditions for the sector, it has been revealed.
Accounts for AP Jess show the family-owned company made £406,564 pre-tax profit in the year to March 2012, compared with £364,317 in the preceding period.
Writing in the accounts, directors noted the company has started work under a contract to kill pigs for Tulip, the pork and bacon products giant, which they said will be profitable and secures the future of the company's Brechin plant in the medium term.
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