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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 .
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.
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]
By 1915, the factory was producing 200,000 biscuits per day! World War I squeezed the business. In 1917, rusk and cookie sales were $100,000, but profits were a meager $718.
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 ...
Sayers then remained a family business until 1977, when it was sold to United Biscuits. It was sold again to Warburtons in July 1990, a baking firm based in Bolton. Warburtons also bought Hampsons, Sayers' sister company and other bakeries in their estate included Burneys of Rochdale, Spinks of Sharston, Parkers of Eccles, Burtons of Blackpool. [2]
The Ashby-de-la-Zouch site won a Best Factory Award in 2004. [3] UB sold the company to the German company Intersnack in December 2012 for £500 million. [4] On 2 February 2022, it was reported KP Snacks supply chain was affected by a ransomware attack, which could last weeks. [5]
At the age of 16, the Grand Rapids native got his break in snacks washing trucks for Hekman Biscuit Company, which was later acquired by Keebler and then folded into the United Biscuit Company.