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Bowyers was a company known for the manufacture of meat products, including a brand of sausages, which was based in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. The company was acquired by Northern Foods in 1985, and passed through two other owners until the Trowbridge factory was closed in 2007.
The Bowyers rank 38th in the order of precedence of the companies, immediately above the Worshipful Company of Fletchers. Uniquely, among all the city's livery companies, companies without livery and guilds, it is the only company with a two-year officer and mastership cycle going back to at least 1488.
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However, in 1371, the fletchers petitioned the Lord Mayor to divide into their own Company, leaving the bowyers to form the Worshipful Company of Bowyers. The trade of fletchers, considering the development of more technologically advanced weapons, has disappeared entirely.
It became part of the Chilled Foods division known as Premium Savoury Products. In January 2007 Northern Foods sold most of its Savoury Pastry business to Vision Capital; this included Pork Farms, Bowyers and Palethorpes. Now rebranded by Vision Capital as Addo Food Group, the Market Drayton plant presently employs 700 people.
Worshipful Company of Bowyers: 38 Bowyers Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt: N/A Worshipful Company of Brewers: 14 Brewers In God Is All Our Trust English Brewers' Hall, Aldermanbury Square Worshipful Company of Broderers: 48 Broderers Omnia De Super Latin All From Above Worshipful Company of Butchers: 24 Butchers Omnia Subiecisti Sub Pedibus, Oves ...
Entrance to Hall. The Worshipful Company of Butchers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, England.Records indicate that an organisation of butchers existed as early as 975; the Butchers' Guild, the direct predecessor of the present Company, was granted the right to regulate the trade in 1331.
By working in groups more could be accomplished. In medieval England, for example, professional bowyers produced thousands of bows required for that country's military. These bowyers could reportedly make an English longbow in as little as two hours. Wooden selfbows normally take from 5–15 hours of work depending on the skill of the bowyer ...