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United Biscuits (UB) is a British multinational food manufacturer, makers of McVitie's biscuits, Jacob's Cream Crackers, and Twiglets. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. In November 2014, the company was acquired by Yıldız Holding and is now part of Pladis.
McVitie's (/ m ə k ˈ v ɪ t i z /) [1] is a British snack food brand owned by United Biscuits.The name is derived from the original Scottish biscuit maker, McVitie & Price, Ltd., established in 1830 on Rose Street in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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]
In May 2017, pladis announced it would be launching McVitie's biscuits in the US in 2018. [14] Jaffa Cakes is a part of McVitie's, and was reformulated in 2017. [15] McVities also produce Hobnobs, Rich Tea, Penguins, Jacob's cream crackers, Carr's water biscuits, [16] Crawford's, [17] Meredith and Drew and go ahead!.
The partners registered their business in 1857 as Peek, Frean & Co. Ltd, based in a disused sugar refinery on Mill Street in Dockhead, South East London, [1] in the west of Bermondsey. [1] With a quickly expanding business, in 1860, Peek engaged his friend John Carr, the apprenticed son of the Carlisle -based Scottish milling and biscuit-making ...
It became part of Cavenham Foods in 1964 until 1972, when it was sold to United Biscuits group, along with Cavenham's other biscuit brands Wright's Biscuits and Kemps for $10 million. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] United Biscuits was sold by its private equity owners to the Turkish-based multinational Yıldız Holding in 2014; in 2016, all UB brands ...
Established in 1977 by Rajni Bector and headquartered in Ludhiana, Punjab, the company manufactures and markets various types of biscuits, including cookies, creams, crackers, digestives, and glucose, under its flagship brand "Mrs Bector's Cremica". [4] [5] Its products are also marketed under the brand name "English Oven". [6] [7] [5]
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