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A former Red Barn location in Mississauga, Ontario, now a Mr. Sub restaurant. This is a list of defunct fast-food chains.A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants with the same name in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership (e.g., McDonald's in the U.S.) or franchising agreements.
Wimpy Grills – founded in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1934; eventually grew to 25 locations within the United States and 1,500 outside of the U.S.; its international locations were eventually sold to J. Lyons and Co. in the United Kingdom, which remains open while all of the American locations eventually closed by 1978 [14] [15] [16] [17]
Terry's Group in 1991 had made $14.3 million pre tax profits on $153 million of sales, 5% of United Biscuits business. [37] United Biscuits in 1992 decided to concentrated its business on the savory snacks and biscuits, and sold Terry's Group to Philip Morris and its subsidiary Kraft Foods for £220
It would become part of the largest biscuit company in the United States. Holland Rusk Company. ... and built, in 1929, a $20,000 bakery at 418 W. 18 th St. (at Cleveland Avenue).
In 1995, United Biscuits announced plans to spin off the snack chip business, [20] but ended up selling the entire company to a partnership between Flowers Industries and Artal Luxembourg, a private equity firm. [21] Artal Luxembourg sold its holdings in Keebler in an IPO in 1998. [22] The Keebler Company purchased Sunshine Biscuits in 1996. [23]
But although Keebler and United Biscuit hailed by Philadelphia, the plant in Michigan was a hotbed of activity in the snacks world. ... The Pop-Tarts officially launched in Cleveland, Ohio in 1964 ...
Campbell Soup Co. may make a £1.5 billion ($2.3 billion) bid for the biscuit-making unit of British company United Biscuits.Campbell is interested in the biscuit business, which makes up around ...
Ross also had a factory at Westwick, Norfolk from 1948, where they had fruit and vegetables – garden peas; it was bought completely by Ross in 1954, bought by United Biscuits in 1999, and was acquired by its present owners Heinz in 2000. [3] Potato chips were introduced in 1962. It bought Grimsby Motors in June 1959, Sterling Poultry (broiler ...