Pollok Williamson
award winning family butcher
Mr Duguid has over 65 years’ experience in the meat trade. Along with his wife, Mrs Duguid, they have owned their own business (Pollok Williamson) since 1978.
Over the last forty-eight years Pollok Williamson has been built up from one retail shop to now consist of three retail shops, a cooked meat slicing department and a factory, two of which are EC licensed premises along with a SALSA licence for the cooked meat business. This has been achieved with a lot of hard work and the purchase of two well established businesses (Climie of Cumnock and J. McGarrity of Kilmarnock) which Mr Duguid acquired early on in his years of being in business.
The business also moved into the wholesale and catering side of the meat trade which is now a large part of what we do, supplying to other businesses who distribute to their own customers. We also supply individual hotels and hotel groups, various convenience stores, and other catering establishments.
With our new factory, which is our main delivery hub, we can buy in bulk which helps to keep our carbon footprint down, and getting our deliveries to the one premises helps with our efficiency as we fulfil the needs of our individual shops directly from the factory with our own vans.
We are also a retail butcher and understand the customers’ needs more than the telesales personnel of the big wholesalers – we are always able to talk on a personal level with our customers to help fulfil their individual needs.
All products available within our shops are from primal Scotch beef, or premium lamb, pork and chicken.
We also offer products that we manufacture ourselves including all types of sausage, black pudding, fruit pudding, and haggis. In addition, we make our own variety of pies, which we sell in our shops.
Currently, we have five company vans delivering throughout Ayrshire and central Scotland to our extended range of customers, and through our website we have expanded into internet online sales within the business. We pride ourselves on our fast and efficient delivery service and we also have a well-established company who deliver our internet orders.
Pollok Williamson is a family run business with a lot of its staff being long term, loyal employees, and Mr Duguid always says that he would not sell anything within the shops that he wouldn’t serve up to his own grandchildren!
We are now trying our hand at Facebook and Instagram which is another new venture to hopefully help increase the awareness of new customers who might not yet know about us and what we are about.
