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Fine Fare's parent company, Associated British Foods, had in 1967 had purchased a controlling share holding in the grocery firm Melias, [63] who also operated Merlin Supermarkets, and in 1970 agreed to share costs amongst both companies and allow the Fine Fare brand to be used on Melias supermarkets. [64]
Bejam was a British frozen food supermarket chain founded by ... quickly during the 1970s, ... 1.37 million in 1980, [19] and 16 freezer centres owned by Fine Fare.
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Fine Fare evolved into the largest supermarket chain in Great Britain with some 1,000 stores, and by the 1960s turned profitable. [18] In 1961, Weston also founded a new company, Food and General Holdings Ltd, with which to enter the British flour milling industry for supply to his bread bakeries.
A grocery store chain that flourished throughout Indiana and Ohio, eventually opening dozens of stores, Marsh Supermarkets filed for bankruptcy in 2017. Founded in 1931, it lasted for 88 years ...
Downsway Supermarkets Bought by Fine Fare: 1976 East Anglian based supermarket group with 80 stores owned by Vestey Group. Group had purchased grocery stores Platt Stores and C.H.Kaye, and had £10.9 million in sales during 1974. 47 stores were sold in 1976 and converted to Fine Fare stores. The remaining stores were converted to Freezer Fare ...
The 1970s and '80s were filled with memorable but not-so-healthy foods. ... Children of the 1970s and 1980s had a veritable smorgasbord of ill-conceived and nutritionally suspicious fare to enjoy ...
However, BAT decided to sell any business that failed to progress and so the company was sold off in chunks. Former Price Rite stores in the south of England were sold off in 1980 to Fine Fare, with the remaining 67 branches sold to Argyll Foods in 1982. [7] In 1984, International Stores was sold to the Dee Corporation. [9]