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Meet Joe Gigli, a second-generation butcher who, alongside his brother Harry, runs their family-owned butcher shop and bistro, Gigli’s Butchers in Lytham St Annes.

The Giglis saw an opportunity to elevate their product offering and boost profits by introducing a range of added-value sides to their counter.

Jonny Farrell’s journey into butchery is anything but conventional. Unlike many in the trade, he wasn’t raised in a butcher’s shop, sweeping sawdust from the floor as a child. Instead, his early career was spent immersed in the world of audio engineering, studying at Leeds Conservatoire before moving to China to work as a music producer and sound designer for video games. But fate – and an unexpected job opportunity in Shanghai – led him to discover a passion that would redefine his career and his life.