Livestock sales to resume at Builth Wells auction mart under site’s new ownership

Richard Hyde of Sunderlands said the company was delighted to announce the purchase of Brightwells’ livestock enterprise.

He said: "Powys has the highest density of sheep anywhere in the world and Sunderlands took the decision to
expand further their livestock auctioneering business from Hereford and Talgarth Markets to include Builth
Wells Market.

"The current crisis has underlined the importance of home-grown food production and not to be reliant upon imports which can stop overnight, as this crisis has blatently pointed out.

"Sunderlands are pleased to invest further in British agriculture and particularly livestock production in the highest density sheep population in the world.

"We look forward to the support of the farmers in the Builth Wells area."

The Farming Union of Wales’, Brecon and Radnor county executive officer, Catrin Price, said: “News that the mart is re-opening is most welcome, its closure would have had a seriously negative impact on our rural community.

“It is a vital life line for our farmers and we hope that the mart, under Sunderlands, has a long and prosperous future."

Joint managing directors of Brightwells, Nick Gorst and Richard Binnersley, said the sale of the livestock enterprise would allow the business to ‘focus and redeploy [their] resources in established markets, such as rural processional services’.