Donaldsons of Orkney is a butcher and food producer based on Albert Street in Kirkwall. The business supplies local customers and hospitality operators with meat products and a range of prepared, cured and smoked foods.
Its products include sausages, puddings, cured and smoked bacon and hams, spiced beef and other butcher lines. The company also produces items such as smoked salmon pâté and has its own processing facilities behind the Kirkwall shop.
Donaldsons traces the business back to 1955 and moved to its current Albert Street premises in 1982. The present legal entity is a private unlimited company incorporated in 2022, while the trading business has a much longer history. Hotels, cafés, guest houses, restaurants and individual customers are among the markets served. The company's website provides product information, recipes, opening hours and direct telephone and email contact details. The shop also sells directly to local customers.