Halal meat business leverages new market opportunities
Businesses in Gardiner and Hallowell see new opportunities in the immigrant Muslim population for growing the halal meat business.
Khalid Zamat, who owns two Mainly Groceries stores, one in Augusta and another that opened recently in Hallowell, sells halal meat, which he gets from out of state. Joel Davis and his business partner Bill Lovely operate a USDA-inspected slaughterhouse at Central Maine Meats in Gardiner. Now Central Maine Meats has received USDA authorization to bring in a halal butcher to ramp up that segment, the Kennebec Journal reported.
Davis said Central Maine Meats is talking to food distribution companies it has contracts with to supply halal meat to their clients.
“We are in the infancy with this,” Davis told the paper. “We think there are bigger opportunities in state and out of state as well.”
Zamat said he was on the verge of striking a deal with other halal markets in the state to provide meat.
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