My Net Worth: Simon Erikson, Neat Meat co-founder

Simon Erikson is the co-founder of gourmet meat company Neat Meat. (Image: Supplied)

Sun, 21 Dec 2025

Simon Erikson is the co-founder of premium meat company Neat Meat, which supplies meat to ready meals such as My Food Bag and has partnerships with chefs such as Josh Emmett. He lives in Auckland with his wife and three children, but hopes to return to the farm one day.As a child, I grew up on a farm in Gizzy [Gisborne], so there were lots of little things that made my childhood good. It was such a simple lifestyle. We made go-karts out of Mum and Dad's golf trundlers, because that's all we could find. Eeling, building tree hu...

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