2021 Awards Sponsors

Farmers Weekly is the UK’s leading agricultural media brand, delivering actionable content, innovative events, and a range of services to farmers.  Our goal is to be in every farmer’s pocket, to be the starting point for all their business information needs, and to inspire profitable decision making.

To our weekly magazine readers, daily website users and social media followers we provide authoritative and independent news and information.  We also have a number of events and services to inspire, inform and support our audience.

The biggest of these is the Farmers Weekly Awards held at The Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London. Each year through a rigorous judging process, which includes a visit to every farm on the shortlist for each category, with the most deserving farmers rewarded culminating in the award for the Farmers Weekly Farmer of the Year.

We also produce face to face events such as Britain’s Fittest Farmer, a YouTube series in Farmer’s Apprentice and a variety of tailored webinars designed to connect sponsors to our audience with carefully crafted, valuable content.

2021 saw the launch of the Transition project, a new initiative which involves content, a webinar series and podcast aimed at helping our audience to secure a sustainable future for their farm business in the face of changes to payments and bold carbon neutral targets for the sector. 

Alongside the Transition podcast we also have The Farmers Weekly podcast and Boots & Heels podcast covering the top news and key issues in British farming.

Our classified platform in print and online allows our audience to easily connect in a marketplace to buy and sell machinery and equipment. In addition to this, the Farmers Weekly R&D tax credits service, in partnership with Leyton, can help farmers inject cashflow into their farm through tax incentives that they may be eligible for.

The UK Vet journals provide practical, up-to-date information for the whole clinical veterinary team. They cover all aspects of veterinary medicine, surgery and nursing care, and all species from the farm to the home. The accompanying online CPD programmes enable the veterinary surgeon or veterinary nurse to fulfil their complete CPD requirements.

Noble Futures is a leading specialist recruitment consultancy for the Animal Health, Agricultural, Equine & Pet industries. With an emphasis on executive, management, sales, marketing, technical and clerical roles, Noble Futures has a dedicated network of expert recruitment consultants located across the UK and Ireland.

An enthusiastic attendee of the VMA Awards for the last seven years, the Noble Futures team are firm believers in the celebration of achievement and consequently the company is returning sponsor of the VMA Marketing Campaign Award for the 3rd year running.

Tony Noble, Managing Director of Noble Futures comments “we’re delighted to be back on board to sponsor the VMA Marketing Campaign Award. Creativity is a key contributor to business success in today’s fast paced global economy. Successful companies need to stand out to get noticed and nowhere is this more evident than in creative marketing campaigns that extend beyond a single communications channel. It takes a special talent to create an integrated campaign that is successful across multiple channels and as we’re all about talent here at Noble Futures, we’re delighted to be given this opportunity to reward it.”

Noble Futures manages recruitment for many of the UK’s leading nutrition, supplement and pharmaceutical companies, in addition to many other leading product and service led organisations. Experts in their field, the team has an in-depth knowledge of the animal health industry and has many decades of combined experience in recruiting for success. “A keen eye for connecting employee to employer”, “great insight in matching people to organisations” and “an amazing ‘can do’ attitude” are just a few of the many comments the Noble Futures team receives on a regular basis.

The Noble Futures’ approach to recruitment focuses upon quality, not quantity, which allows the team to deliver a first-class service to both client and candidate. By working with a select client base, the company presents the most exciting job opportunities in the industry and works tirelessly to find the most attractive candidates for any vacancy.

Noble continues “the Noble Futures ethos is built upon the three core pillars of expertise, an individualised service and complete confidentiality. Our consultants take time to get to know both our client’s needs and our candidate’s strengths and motivations. This allows us to really understand the role and help us to find the perfect person to fill it.”

Whether you are managing your company’s recruitment needs or you’re looking for your next big career move the Noble Futures team are on hand to provide you with expert advice and direction and are committed to placing people first.

For more information and the latest vacancies, see www.noble-futures.com

Vetfile is the most comprehensive and, more importantly, up-to-date database for the veterinary profession. With more than 31,500 veterinary professionals on our database, individuals can be selected to receive personalised and targeted direct mail straight to their door. We guarantee your communication is delivered professionally by name. Ongoing awareness campaigns ensure veterinary professionals are highly conscious and engaged with the trusted Vetfile brand, which reinforces your personal message to veterinary professionals.

Our mailings are personal because we are constantly building relationships and contacting vet practices on a daily basis to make sure we have their very latest information to target the correct people first time. Any information on the Vetfile database has been individually validated by the recipients, as the circulation of Vet Times and VN Times are both ABC audited.

By having access to more data, you are able to communicate with your target audience much more effectively, and target who you want and where you want. This allows us to tailor mailing packages to suit your needs.

DBT operates as a global technology business specialising in Animal Health and Agriculture. We build intelligent, integrated solutions that enable business efficiency and growth using bespoke enterprise quality applications, precision data integration and digital marketing to give our clients the competitive edge they need.

System & Data Integration

We truly believe in the value of connected systems, processes and enriched data. It helps our customers get meaningful and evidenced based insight and decisions. We specialise in supply chain EDI order to cash processes, sourcing data from farm management systems or vet practice management systems, processors, veterinary businesses – we focus on driving customer insight, reducing errors, gaining a competitive advantage, analysing your data landscape and improving market share.

Accruing the necessary annual CPD hours for vets often means attending far-flung conferences, sitting through expensive lectures and lots of rescheduling. The result? Stressed out, frustrated and time-poor vets.

The Webinar Vet offers an online CPD service for vets across the globe. With over 1000 high quality, live lecture webinars available on a huge range of veterinary issues and subjects, vets can achieve their required CPD objectives completely online – totally eradicating the need for costly travelling, stressful scheduling and time away from practice. As well as having the opportunity to watch the webinars live, all sessions are recorded and available via a member login, so vets can access the content as many times as they wish and at a time that suits them – all from the comfort of their own home.

With free and paid membership options available, our mission is to make veterinary education more accessible and affordable – and our engaged community of more than 60,000 vets worldwide is testament to exactly that. Our free webinars are sponsored by globally recognised organisations including Purina, SimplyHealth, Elanco and MSD, whilst our paid memberships offer content from world-class industry speakers from all over the world.

A key element of The Webinar Vet is Virtual Congress; an annual, online event that brings together vets from over 40 countries for a three-day festival of back-to-back sessions in everything from veterinary best practice and innovation to team management, marketing and mindfulness. What’s more, our One-for-One initiative means that, for every Virtual Congress ticket purchased, The Webinar Vet will donate a completely free ticket to a vet in a developing country.

The Company Vision of The Webinar Vet demonstrates our core objectives;

• To provide the highest quality vet-led content
• To be the world’s largest online veterinary community, and
• Have the planet’s most confident vets

Lewis Business Media Ltd (LBM) is a multi-platform media business operating in a number of B2B markets, the largest of which is the UK agriculture sector. We publish magazines, newsletters & websites, organise events and manage data. Our agriculture portfolio includes:

Pig World

Pig World magazine is the journal of the National Pig Association and the only magazine for the UK’s thriving pig sector, with a website providing a daily news service. The National Pig Awards is the industry’s annual event, while Pigs Tomorrow – a biennial conference – is the latest addition to the portfolio and the most recent instalment attracted 300 delegates.

Poultry Business

Poultry Business magazine and its website, Poultry News, are the leading source of news, views, technical advice and product developments in the UK poultry sector, spanning both production and processing sectors of both the meat and egg industries. Poultry Business also organises the National Egg & Poultry Awards.

OvertheCounter

OvertheCounter is the journal of both AMTRA and AHDA and is the only magazine & website for the UK’s SQPs. An SQP (suitably qualified person) has attained the professional qualification required to sell certain animal health products. The OvertheCounter magazine and website provide news, technical updates and CPD modules. In addition, OvertheCounter organises a number of CPD conferences and the National SQP awards.

Farm Business

Farm Business is a fortnightly digital magazine and associated website. The magazine is sent to 15,000 leaders of farm businesses in the UK and covers high level political, environmental and business developments that are of interest to large scale farmers. Farm Business also organises the annual Food & Farming Industry Awards, a prestigious awards hosted in the Houses of Parliament. LBM’s philosophy is to adopt a reader-first approach. If your content engages and inspires, commercial opportunities will follow.

For further information please contact:

Editorial

• Pigs & Farm Business – Alistair Driver, alistair@lewisbusinessmedia.co.uk
• Poultry– Chloe Ryan, chloe@lewisbusinessmedia.co.uk
• OvertheCounter – Simon King, simon.king@lewisbusinessmedia.co.uk

Commercial

• Pigs & Poultry – Martin Goult, martin@lewisbusinessmedia.co.uk
• OvertheCounter – Emma Sharp, emmas@lewisbusinessmedia.co.uk
• Farm Business – James Ryan, james@lewisbusinessmedia.co.uk

Boehringer Ingelheim is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, Boehringer Ingelheim operates presently with a total of some 50,000 employees worldwide. The focus of the family-owned company, founded in 1885, is on researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing new medications of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine. In 2015, Boehringer Ingelheim achieved net sales of about 14.8 billion euros. R&D expenditure corresponds to 20.3 per cent of net sales. For more information, please visit www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

Purple Health is a specialist division of Purple Agency. We believe health is a spectrum that touches all of us – from illness to wellness, intervention to prevention, human to animal. With this in mind, Purple Health works with a range of clients and brands to promote products that help and heal, making our health the best it can be.

Our expertise is broad and versatile, spanning pharma, animal health, health & wellness (OTC), rare disease, medical devices and medical communications.

We’re as dedicated and passionate as we are qualified, with a committed team of expert healthcare marketing specialists, strategists, writers, designers, and developers in house. Our extensive experience spans the full range of communications, including brand and product campaigns, proposition development, and digital and multichannel strategy.

Established in 1994, British Dairying reaches, to the best of our knowledge, more dairy farmers than any other agricultural publication – 10,984 farm copies (January 2018) including 1,821 to mainly larger herds in Northern Ireland, where it is the only independent specialist dairy publication widely available. Farm circulation is not restricted by herd size or publication frequency and for many milk producers British Dairying is the only dairy publication now freely available to them. That’s a lot more opportunities for your advertisement to be seen and responded to, which is perhaps why some advertisers remark on an increased level of enquiries.

High visibility and impact for your message to be seen by readers British Dairying’s generous ratio of advertising to editorial (rarely above 50%) means we provide more editorial pages than ads per issue. This ensures high visibility and impact, and maximises the chance of your advertisements being seen by readers. We avoid composite pages of advertisements that reduce the chances of your ad being seen and read. All advertisements are therefore either on the same page as or facing editorial.

Editorial input The editorial is a blend of practical and business information, supplied by a range of dairy market sector specialist journalists and a variety of research, advisory and dairy associated organisations and edited by Mike Green, a renowned journalist whose family were dairy farmers. Comment is provided by the well known and authoritative dairy industry commentator and journalist Chris Walkland.