Group Overview

Premier Foods vision is to be 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, Sharwood's 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 46.8 million people eat a Premier Foods branded product in an average two week period. Our top twelve brands alone have retail sales of over £1.2** billion and we have an annual group turnover of over £2.661 billion. In 2009 we delivered a trading profit of £323.1 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.

*Continuing operations

**IRI Major Multiples, 52 weeks ending 27 December 2008