- 70+years in the meat trade
- 300days a year at grass, up to
- 21–28days dry aged on the bone
- UK & EUretail, wholesale and manufacturing
From a Glasgow butcher's counter to Europe's cutting rooms
What our customers expect from us hasn't changed in seventy years: the best beef and lamb we can select.
- Rutherglen
Our grandfather started the business from humble beginnings in Rutherglen, Scotland.
- The Glasgow shops
After he died in his early fifties, Marjorie McKnight and her son Tom ran the shops for another fifteen years, serving families in southern Glasgow for more than three decades.
- The 1980s
Thomas Clement McKnight and his sister Helen began de-boning and packing Scottish beef in a purpose-built plant supplying the fast-growing supermarkets.
- Today
Thomas McKnight & Daughters supplies retail, wholesale and manufacturing customers in the UK and throughout Europe.
Raised slowly, within sight of the Shropshire Hills
Our brothers, Rory and James McKnight, farm Aberdeen Angus and Hereford cattle near Church Stretton, an area the Victorians called Little Switzerland. They started out competing to finish the best cattle for market. Now they work side by side.
Our system is a traditional one and it takes longer than most. Cattle are fed up to 70% grass and forage and are out for up to 300 days a year, coming under cover only when the weather turns.
Beyond our own farms, we select native and continental cattle from across the British Isles on breed, age, fat cover and conformation, fully traceable to the farm of origin.
- Aberdeen Angus
- Hereford
- Welsh Black
- British White
- Belted Galloway
- Red Poll
- Highland
- English Longhorn
- South Devon
- Continental
Dry aged on the bone
21–28 days
Bone-in cuts are matured in a dry-age chamber where airflow, temperature and humidity are controlled, so the beef ages slower and longer for deeper flavour and tenderness.
Only carcasses that qualify by age, breed and classification go into the chamber. Need longer maturation? We age to your own specification.
The cut list
Every cut we prepare for the trade. Pick the ones you want priced and they'll go straight into your enquiry.
Lamb, hand selected carcass by carcass
We choose every carcass and cut to our own specification, from selected farms in the UK and Ireland. Taste, succulence and tenderness are what our customers come back for.
- Traditional lambAll year
- Organic and PGI lambAll year
- Salt-marsh and regional breedsIn season
- Halal lambUnder an accredited halal certification body
Fully traceable to the farm of origin, with welfare standards that in many cases go beyond EU requirements.
Ask for prices and availability
Tell us what you need, where it's going and roughly how much. Our sales desk replies with pricing, specification and delivery options.
- Sales desksales@tommcknight.co.uk
- Telephone+44 (0) 1584 514111
- Office48 West George Street, Glasgow G2 1BP