Farmfoods Limited
TypePrivate limited company
IndustryRetail
Founded1954 (1954)
in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
HeadquartersCumbernauld, Scotland, UK
Number of locations
335+ (2023)
Key people
George Herd (CEO)
ProductsFrozen foods
Groceries
RevenueDecrease £941.6 million (2021)[1]
Decrease £20.5 million (2021)[1]
Decrease £14.6 million (2021)[1]
Websitewww.farmfoods.co.uk

Farmfoods is a British frozen food and grocery supermarket chain based in Cumbernauld, Scotland.[2] It is owned by Eric Herd, and has over three hundred shops in the United Kingdom, of which more than a hundred are in Scotland.[3][4]

Farmfoods primarily focuses on frozen foods, however they also stock a range of grocery, fresh produce, chilled, household, electrical and beauty products.

History

The company started in 1954 as a meat-processing business. A shop was opened in Aberdeen in the 1970s,[3] and by the mid-1980s the company had about twenty.[5]

In the 1990s, it bought Capital Freezer Centres and Wallis Frozen Foods.[5] In 2005 it had annual sales of just over £400 million, the highest of any private mid-market firm in Scotland in that year, and fourth-highest in the United Kingdom.[5]

Interior of a branch in Pontefract.

In 2011, Farmfoods and Asda made an unsuccessful bid for Iceland; Farmfoods would have acquired two hundred of the eight hundred stores.[6]

In recent years Farmfoods have been opening larger stores and closing smaller ones as they enlarge their non food range. They have also taken over numerous old Aldi and Lidl supermarket sites.

The company is headquartered in Cumbernauld with some head office functions operating out of Birmingham and Solihull.

In 2023, Farmfoods began modernising their stores, new stores have been opened which feature a new interior design.

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Annual report and consolidated financial statements 1 January 2022". Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  2. ↑ Farmfoods Limited: Company number SC030186. Companies House. Accessed September 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Farmfoods shocks industry by becoming fastest-growing grocer". The Guardian. 17 February 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  4. ↑ Supermarket Farmfoods opens in Fareham in former Poundstretcher premises. Portsmouth: The News. Accessed September 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 "Farmfoods tops table for private Scottish mid-market firms". The Herald. 12 October 2007. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  6. ↑ Ebrahimi, Helia (5 November 2011). "Asda and Farmfoods join in bid for Iceland". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 7 November 2011. Archived 7 November 2011
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