The story
Establishment
The company started in 1954 as a meat-processing business. A shop was opened in Aberdeen in the 1970s, and by the mid-1980s, the company had about twenty outlets. In the 1990s, it bought Capital Freezer Centres and Wallis Frozen Foods. 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.
Proposed Iceland takeover
In 2011, Farmfoods and Asda made an unsuccessful bid for Iceland; Farmfoods would have acquired two hundred of the eight hundred stores.
Expansion and revamp
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.
In 2023, Farmfoods began revamping some of their stores with a new interior design.
In May 2024, Farmfoods announced an expansion plan that would mean opening 20-to-30 new stores a year, with more stores in the London area being a priority. In the first four months of 2024, Farmfoods secured sites for 24 new stores throughout the country.
The company is headquartered in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, with some head office functions operating out of Solihull and Yardley, Birmingham in the West Midlands.
From Wikipedia’s article on Farmfoods, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5