Farmfoods

Farmfoods is a British frozen food 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)
(Aberdeen, Scotland)
HeadquartersCumbernauld, Scotland
Number of locations
330+ (2016)
Key people
George Herd (ceo)
Productsfrozen foods
groceries
Websitewww.farmfoods.co.uk

History
Acomb, York
Kingston upon Hull
Pontefract, West Yorkshire

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 received two hundred of the eight hundred stores.[5]

References
  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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