Negotiating a merger? Hovis and Kingsmill owners are discussing a significant agreement | Associated British Foods
Potential Merger of Major UK Bread Brands The proprietors of Hovis and Kingsmill are in discussions that might result in a merger between two of the UK’s leading bread brands amid a challenging market landscape. Following a report over the weekend, Associated British Foods (ABF), which owns Kingsmill’s parent company along with Primark, confirmed it’s […]
Kingsmill owner warns of price rises due to ‘very small’ expected harvests in UK | Farming
One of Britain’s biggest bread makers predicts a “very low” grain harvest in the UK and warns prices could rise as the company becomes more reliant on imports did. George Weston, chief executive of Associated British Foods (ABF), which owns Kingsmill and Ryvita, as well as Twinings Tea, Dorset Cereals and discount fashion retailer Primark, […]
Kingsmill massacre an ‘overtly sectarian attack by IRA’, coroner rules | Northern Ireland
The shooting of 10 Protestant workers in Northern Ireland’s Kingsmill in 1976 was an “blatant sectarian attack by the IRA”, a coroner has ruled. Almost eight years after the inquest began, Brian Sherrard announced his findings into the Co. Armagh Troubles murders in Belfast on Friday. The inquest heard that the workers’ minibus was ambushed […]