Cranswick plc is a leading UK food producer and supplier of premium, fresh and added-value food products. The company is listed on the

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and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

History

Cranswick was founded by Jim Bloom, Mike Field and twenty-one other

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farmers producing pig feed in 1974 under the name ''Cranswick Mill''. The company subsequently diversified into food production. It was first listed on the

in 1985. In 1993 Cranswick diversified into pet products with the purchase of George Buckton and then, in 2009, sold its pet products business. The company has recently moved back to breeding and rearing its own British pigs after acquiring East Anglian Pigs Limited and livestock and assets from Dent Ltd in 2013. Cranswick has developed through a combination of acquisitions and subsequent

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, enabling the company to build upon its philosophy of working with artisan producers to provide premium, market leading products to a much wider audience. The Company now serves its customers from twelve production facilities across the UK. On 25 July 2016, the company announced it had sold The Sandwich Factory Holdings Ltd for £15 million to Greencore.

Acquisitions

* 2001: Continental Fine Foods * 2003: Cranswick plc acquires The Sandwich Factory * 2005: Perkins Chilled Foods * 2006: Delico, a cooked meats producer * 2009: Bowes of Norfolk * 2012: Kingston Foods, a cooked meats business * 2013: East Anglian Pigs Ltd and Dent Ltd, pig rearing businesses *2014: Benson Park, a premium cooked poultry business *2016: CCL Holdings Limited and Crown Chicken Limited, a leading integrated poultry producer *2016: Dunbia Ballymena, a leading Northern Irish pork processing business

Operations

Cranswick produces fresh

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s, cooked meat, air-dried bacon, premium cooked poultry,

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and gourmet pastry products. The Company’s brands include Bodega, Weight Watchers, Woodall’s, Simply Sausages, Red Lion Foods and the Black Farmer. Cranswick’s core market is the UK but the company has a rapidly developing export business serving the

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an, US and

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n markets.

References

External links

Official site
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