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United Biscuits acquired the frozen food company Ross Young's from Hanson in 1988 for £335 million. [10] It sold Keebler for $500 million in 1995 after giving up efforts to break into the American market. [11] In 1998 PepsiCo purchased Smith's Snackfood Company from United Biscuits. [12]
pladis Global (styled as pladis) is a British confectionery and snack foods company encompassing United Biscuits, Ülker, Godiva Chocolatier and DeMet's Candy Company.It was formed in January 2016 as a subsidiary of Yıldız Holding with its headquarters in London, England.
Carr's is a British biscuit and cracker manufacturer, currently owned by Pladis Global through its subsidiary United Biscuits. The company was founded in 1831 by Jonathan Dodgson Carr and is marketed in the United States by Kellogg's.
Hekman Biscuit became part of Keebler in 1960, which became part of United Biscuit in 1974 and then Kellogg in 2001. In 1970, the Hekman Furniture Company became part of Beatrice. In 1983, Howard ...
Campbell Soup Co. (CPB) 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 ...
Nabisco (/ n ə ˈ b ɪ s k oʊ /, abbreviated from the earlier name National Biscuit Company) is an American manufacturer of cookies and snacks headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey. The company is a subsidiary of Illinois -based Mondelēz International .
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]
The snacks industry in general, and biscuits in particular, has an oddly deep history in Michigan, dating back to when Will Keith Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in ...