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David Thompson (entrepreneur) David Thompson (born 4 April 1936) is the co-founder of Hillsdown Holdings, one of the United Kingdom's largest food businesses.
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Premier Foods Premier Foods plc is a British food manufacturer headquartered in St Albans, Hertfordshire. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index.
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Dorset Cereals Dorset Cereals is a British breakfast food manufacturer, based in Poundbury, Dorset. It was founded in 1989 by Terry Crabb and manufactures muesli, porridge, and granola. Its products are exported to more than 70 countries.
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Reckitt Benckiser Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RB) (   ) is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, England. It is a producer of health, hygiene and home products. It was formed in 1999 by the merger of the UK-based Reckitt & Colman plc and the Netherlands-based Benckiser NV.
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Robert Thompson (designer) Robert (Mouseman) Thompson (7 May 1876 – 8 December 1955) was a British furniture maker. He lived in Kilburn, North Yorkshire, where he set up a business manufacturing oak furniture, which featured a carved mouse on almost every piece.
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Walkers (snack foods) Walkers is a British snack food manufacturer mainly operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Walkers was founded in 1948 in Leicester, England by Henry Walker, and acquired by Lay's owner, Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, in 1989. It is best known for manufacturing potato crisps, and other, non-potato-based snack foods. They hold 56 per cent of the British crisps market.<ref name="bbc.co.uk/food"> </ref> The Walkers site in Leicester is the largest crisp production plant in the world, producing over 11 million bags of crisps per day and using about 800 tons of potatoes.
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Saxby Bros Ltd Saxby Bros Limited was a food manufacturing company based in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, who manufactured pork pies, delicatessen, meat and pastry products. In 2007, the company was taken over by General Mills, which led to its closure a year later. The factory is now demolished and redeveloped for housing.
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Crimpy Crimpy was a British manufacturer of potato crisps and packers of "Blue Lagoon" nuts and raisins. It had factories in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire and Winnersh in Wokingham (near Reading, Berkshire).
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Shanghai Tang Shanghai Tang () is a Hong Kong luxury fashion house founded in 1994 by Hong Kong businessman David Tang. The brand is known for its luxury homeware collection, and its fine bone china is the finest type of porcelain with its superior whiteness, translucency and higher strength. In 1998, Richemont acquired David Tang's controlling stake in the business.
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Astini Astini, based in the United Kingdom, is an industrial manufacturer specialising in kitchen and bathroom products. The company was formed in 2001, Astini produced their first product shortly after. They have been growing as a company and providing their products for over five years now.
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Abokado Abokado is a fast food chain based in the United Kingdom.
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Loaf (company) Loaf is a British company, which operates as a high street retailer. Charlie Marshall founded the retail brand, which was formerly known as The Sleep Room. Their showrooms are mainly focused around the London area.
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DS Smith DS Smith Plc is a leading British-based international packaging business. It is headquartered in Euston Road, London, and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
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John West Foods John West Foods is a United Kingdom-based seafood marketing company established in 1857, and currently owned by Thai Union Group of Thailand. They are known as a producer of canned salmon and tuna, and also supply mackerel, sardine, herring, brisling, anchovies and shellfish.
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Copella Copella is a British fruit juice company based in Boxford, Suffolk. It was founded in the 1930s. Copella juices are made from 100% pure pressed apples. The brand is now owned by Tropicana (part of PepsiCo Beverages and Foods North America). In 1991 the family bought the company back from Taunton Cider.
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Gourmet Burger Kitchen Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) is a restaurant chain in the United Kingdom specialising in gourmet burgers.
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Camp Coffee Camp Coffee is a Scottish food product, which began production in 1876 by Paterson & Sons Ltd. in a plant on Charlotte Street, Glasgow. Almost one hundred years later in 1974 businessman Daniel Jenks merged his business with Paterson to form Paterson Jenks plc. In 1984, Paterson Jenks plc was bought by McCormick & Company. Thereafter, McCormick UK Ltd assimilated Paterson Jenks plc into Schwartz.
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Fox's Biscuits Fox's Biscuits is a British biscuit manufacturer, founded by the Fox family in a terrace house, 17 Whitaker Street, Batley in West Yorkshire in 1853. The head office and main factory are still based in the town with two further sites at Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, and at Kirkham in Lancashire. Its biscuits are also exported to Europe, North America and the Far East. The house in Whittaker Street still stands. The company was purchased by Northern Foods in 1977, which was acquired by 2 Sisters Food Group in 2011.
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George Thompson (shipowner) George Thompson (1804–1895) was the founder of a shipping line called the Aberdeen Line and a Liberal politician.
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David Brown Ltd. David Brown Engineering Limited is an English engineering company, principally engaged in the manufacture of gears and gearboxes. Their major gear manufacturing plant is in Swan Lane, Lockwood, Huddersfield, adjacent to Lockwood railway station. It is named after the company's founder, David Brown, though it is more closely associated with his grandson, Sir David Brown (1904–1993).
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David M. Thompson David Marcus Thompson (born 18 July 1950 in Hackney, London) is a British film and television producer.
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Ben's Cookies Ben’s Cookies is a chain of shops in England and elsewhere that bakes and sells chewy biscuits. It was founded in 1983 by Helge Rubinstein and co-founded by Karen Brooke Barnett. The company's logo was created by the British artist Quentin Blake.