Group Overview

Premier Foods is a great British food company with a passion for creating great food and brands that people love.

We manufacture some of the nation's favourite food brands including Hovis bread, Mr Kipling cakes, Sharwoods Asian foods, Batchelors soups, Loyd Grossman sauces, Bisto gravy, Quorn meat free products, Ambrosia custard and rice pudding, Branston pickle and Hartley's jams, marmalades and jellies.

Chances are you have one of our branded food products in your home – more than 99% of all UK households do and 43 million people eat a Premier Foods branded product every two weeks. Our top ten brands alone have retail sales of over £1.2 billion and we have an annual group turnover of over £2.556* billion. In 2007 we delivered a trading profit of £303.7 million.

As well as owning and making some of the UK's most popular food brands, we also manufacture hundreds of products that cater for the food service industry, supply ingredients to other food producers and are trusted to supply own-label products to the UK's major food retailers.

Overall, we manufacture and market great products across many food categories including Bread, Cakes, Preserves, Convenience Foods, Desserts, Meat-Free Foods, Cooking Sauces, Stocks, Gravies, Flour, Chilled Ready Meals, Meat Pies and chilled Desserts.

You’ll find us in every British kitchen and on every British table.

*Based on a proforma basis, which represents the sales and trading profit of  the Group, as if all acquisitions and disposals made since 1 January 2007 had been made on that date.