Associated British Foods (UK)

Associated British Foods (ABF) is a diversified conglomerate with significant interests in food products, fashion retail and ingredients manufacturing. For much of the second half of the 20th century, it was Britain's biggest food company before being overtaken by international rivals. Nevertheless, it remains a substantial business, best-known in the UK for a small but influential portfolio of packaged grocery products, including Kingsmill and Allinson's bread, Silver Spoon sugar and Twinings tea, but also for the extraordinarily successful clothing chain Primark which has in a comparatively short space of time become an important rival to local market leaders Top Shop and Next. ABF also has operations in Australia and North America. Although a large proportion of its shares are publicly owned, the company is controlled by the Weston family, who also have other extensive interests, including bakeries in North America, Canadian supermarket giant Loblaw, and upscale department stores in the UK including Fortnum & Mason, Selfridges and Heal's.

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Allied Bakeries	Twinings
Kingsmill	George Weston Foods
Allinson	British Sugar
Burgen	Jacksons of Piccadilly
Primark	Golden
Jordan's	Ovaltine
Ryvita	Silver Spoon
Blue Dragon	Patak's
Mazola	Tip Top
Argo	Karo

George Weston

Weston's	Wonder Bread
Loblaws	Country Harvest
President's Choice	Interbake Foods

Other Interests

Holt Renfrew	Fortnum & Mason
Selfridges	Heal's

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