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The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange as United Biscuits plc on 27 July 1948. [7] In 1972, United Biscuits acquired Carr's of Carlisle, makers of Table Water biscuits, from James Goldsmith's Cavenham Foods for £2.75 million. [8] Two years later, in 1974, it acquired the US-based Keebler Company for $53 million.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Since their acquisitions, United Biscuits and Jacob Fruitfield Food Group have been in a legal dispute over the use of the Jacob's brand name. [11] [12] With the acquisition of Groupe Danone's biscuit division by Kraft Foods in 2007, the production and sales of Jacob's biscuits in Malaysia is undertaken by Mondelez Malaysia.
In 1952 the company introduced Hercules Nuts and in 1953 the No.1 KP Nuts peanut brand. The company became part of United Biscuits (UB) in 1968. The KP Snacks subsidiary produces a range of packet snack brands including Hula Hoops , Skips , McCoy's , Frisps, Brannigan's, Royster's, Space Raiders , Nik Naks , Wheat Crunchies , Discos, and ...