Farmfoods

Farmfoods is a British frozen food and grocery supermarket chain based in Cumbernauld, Scotland.[2] 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.[3][4]

Farmfoods Limited
TypePrivate limited company
IndustryRetail
Founded1954 (1954)
in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
HeadquartersCumbernauld, Scotland, UK
Number of locations
335+ (2023)
Key people
George Herd (CEO)
ProductsFrozen foods
Groceries
RevenueDecrease £941.6 million (2021)[1]
Decrease £20.5 million (2021)[1]
Decrease £14.6 million (2021)[1]
Websitewww.farmfoods.co.uk

History

The company started in 1954 as a meat-processing business. A shop was opened in Aberdeen in the 1970s,[3] and by the mid-1980s the company had about twenty.[5]

In the 1990s, it bought Capital Freezer Centres and Wallis Frozen Foods.[5] 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.[5]

Interior of a branch in Pontefract.

In 2011, Farmfoods and Asda made an unsuccessful bid for Iceland; Farmfoods would have acquired two hundred of the eight hundred stores.[6]

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

References

  1. "Annual report and consolidated financial statements 1 January 2022". Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  2. Farmfoods Limited: Company number SC030186. Companies House. Accessed September 2021.
  3. "Farmfoods shocks industry by becoming fastest-growing grocer". The Guardian. 17 February 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  4. Supermarket Farmfoods opens in Fareham in former Poundstretcher premises. Portsmouth: The News. Accessed September 2021.
  5. "Farmfoods tops table for private Scottish mid-market firms". The Herald. 12 October 2007. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  6. 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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