Farmfoods

Farmfoods is a British frozen food and grocery supermarket chain based in Cumbernauld, Scotland.[1] It is owned by Eric Herd, and has over three hundred shops in the United Kingdom, of which more than a hundred are in Scotland.[2][3]

Farmfoods Limited
TypePrivate
IndustryRetail
Founded1955 (1955)
in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
HeadquartersCumbernauld, Scotland, UK
Number of locations
341 (2022)
Key people
George Herd (CEO)
Productsfrozen foods
groceries
Websitewww.farmfoods.co.uk

History

The company started in 1955 as a meat-processing business. A shop was opened in Aberdeen in the 1970s,[2] and by the mid-1980s the company had about twenty.[4]

In the 1990s it bought Capital Freezer Centres and Wallis Frozen Foods.[4] In 2005 it had annual sales of just over £400 million, the highest of any private mid-market firm in Scotland in that year, and fourth-highest in the United Kingdom.[4]

In 2011 Farmfoods and Asda made an unsuccessful bid for Iceland; Farmfoods would have acquired two hundred of the eight hundred stores.[5]

The company is headquartered in Cumbernauld with some head office functions operating out of Birmingham and Solihull.

References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Farmfoods Ltd.
  1. Farmfoods Limited: Company number SC030186. Companies House. Accessed September 2021.
  2. "Farmfoods shocks industry by becoming fastest-growing grocer". The Guardian. 17 February 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  3. Supermarket Farmfoods opens in Fareham in former Poundstretcher premises. Portsmouth: The News. Accessed September 2021.
  4. "Farmfoods tops table for private Scottish mid-market firms". The Herald. 12 October 2007. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  5. Ebrahimi, Helia (5 November 2011). "Asda and Farmfoods join in bid for Iceland". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 7 November 2011. Archived 7 November 2011
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