Ben Rigby Game

What Ben Rigby Game does

Ben Rigby Game Ltd is a UK-based private limited company founded in 1979 by Ben Rigby at age 17 from a farming background. The company specializes in wholesale supply of premium wild venison and wild game meat, sourcing from prestigious estates, parks, and forests across the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, and complementing its wild portfolio with New Zealand farmed venison. Its product range spans six deer species (red, fallow, sika, roe, muntjac, Chinese water deer) plus an extensive wild game assortment including pheasant, partridge, grouse, wild duck, pigeon, rabbit, hare, and wild boar, offered in multiple cuts and in either blast-frozen or chilled formats.

Operations are anchored by a purpose-built, state-of-the-art processing facility near Maldon in Essex, constructed in 2015 to keep pace with rapidly expanding business. The facility features custom-designed rail systems, chiller rooms, skinning rooms, cutting rooms, and a dedicated inspection chiller. The company holds BRC Global Standards for Food Safety certification, FSA approval, EC regulation compliance, and is an approved Forestry Commission supplier, providing full traceability from estate/park/forest to finished product. The company employs over 30 people at this single site.

The business operates a wholesale B2B revenue model with prices quoted on request and billing on a pay-as-you-go basis. Customers include meat wholesalers, wholesale butchers, food service suppliers, caterers, food halls, and major supermarket chains in the UK and Europe, alongside specialist food purveyors in Scandinavia, the USA, and the UAE. A secondary retail channel runs through 47+ stockists (farm shops, butchers, and garden centres) primarily across the Essex region. The company pursues enterprise field sales for its trade customers and uses its stockist network plus a basic website and social channels for brand presence, with founder Ben Rigby remaining the central figure since inception.

Name

Ben Rigby Game

Legal name

Ben Rigby Game Ltd

Website

https://benrigbygame.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ben Rigby Game is a UK-based wholesale specialist in wild venison and game meat, sourcing from British and Irish estates and processing at its FSA-approved facility in Essex. It supplies wholesale butchers, food service providers, supermarket chains, and exports to Scandinavia, the USA, and the UAE.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Game Meat Wholesale

NAICS

Poultry and Poultry Product Merchant Wholesalers (42444)

SIC

Fishing, Hunting And Trapping (900)

akta.pro primary industry

Game & Specialty Meats Wholesale (Venison, Bison, etc.) (AFAIADAG)

Keywords

• Wild venison supply
• Game meat wholesale
• Venison processing
• Wild game distribution
• Game dealer

Headquarters

HQ city

Maldon

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Wholesale Venison and Game Sales: Wholesale supply of wild venison and wild game to trade customers including meat wholesalers, food service suppliers, catering butchers, caterers, food halls, and supermarket chains. Also exports to Scandinavia, USA, and UAE.
2. Retail Stockist Distribution: Supply to retail stockists including butchers and farm shops for consumer sales

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Ben Rigby Game is a wholesale supplier and processor of premium wild venison, wild game, and farmed venison, sourcing from UK and Republic of Ireland estates, parks, and forests. The company operates an FSA-approved, BRC-certified processing facility near Maldon, Essex, supplying meat wholesalers, food service providers, caterers, food halls, supermarket chains, and exporting to Scandinavia, the USA, and the UAE.

Product overview

Ben Rigby Game is a specialist game meat supplier operating as a single unified product offering centered on premium wild and farmed game. The core product portfolio includes wild venison sourced from UK and Republic of Ireland estates, an extensive wild game range (pheasant, partridge, grouse, wild duck, pigeon, rabbit, hare, wild boar), and New Zealand farmed venison. These products are complemented by value-added processing services at the company's FSA-approved, state-of-the-art facilities in Essex, which handle packaging, labelling, and traceability. The company serves wholesale channels including butchers, food service providers, caterers, supermarket chains, and international specialist food purveyors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wild Venison Premium wild venison sourced from UK and Republic of Ireland estates, parks, and forests. Offered wholesale to meat wholesalers, food service suppliers, catering butchers, caterers, food halls, and supermarket chains. Available across multiple species including Red Deer, Roe Deer, Fallow, Sika, Muntjac, and Chinese Water Deer.
• Wild Game Extensive range of wild game including pheasant, partridge, grouse, wild duck, pigeon, rabbit, hare, and wild boar. All sourced from Britain's countryside, coast, woodland and wilderness with 100% traceability.
• Game Birds Game birds including pheasant, grouse, pigeon, English partridge, red leg partridge, mallard, wigeon, teal, woodcock, snipe, guinea fowl, game livers, quail and poussin.
• New Zealand Farmed Venison Premium farmed venison sourced from free-range farms in New Zealand. Grass-fed with food safety standards, offering freshness, tenderness and great taste.
• Venison Cuts Various venison cuts including Red Deer diced venison, boneless shoulder, tenderloin, striploin; Roe Deer saddle, oyster cut shoulders, haunch, necks; Muntjac saddle and haunch. Available blast frozen or chilled, in mixed pallets or full loads.
• Venison Processing Services State of the art processing, packaging and labelling services at FSA approved facilities near Maldon, Essex. Includes custom designed rail systems, chiller rooms, skinning rooms, cutting rooms and inspection chiller. Guarantees best quality and 100% traceability.
• Wholesale Supply Services Wholesale supply services to wholesale butchers, food service providers, caterers, food halls, major supermarket chains, and specialist food purveyors in Scandinavia, USA, and UAE.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% traceability from estate, park and forest to finished product
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/benrigbygame
• Facebookfacebook.com/benrigbygame

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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