Despite concerns about the impact of Brexit on success and profitability, the UK food and beverages sector is continuing to expand at a strong rate. This industry is one of the biggest in the UK, with annual revenue of more than GBP 95.4 billion. Food companies and suppliers in this area are increasingly investing in research and development and embracing innovation as a means of growing income and sales.
The following is Findbestbiz’s ranking of the top ten food and beverages manufacturers in the United Kingdom:
1. Mars
Mars operates in the United Kingdom under the name Mars Food UK Limited and is headquartered in Slough, Berkshire. The company sells foods and products under over 40 distinct beverage brands, including Orbit, Skittles, Mars Drinks, Altoids, Bounty, Celebrations, and Snickers.
2. Unilever
The company’s food and beverages product portfolio—which is marketed under the Unilever Food Solutions business segment—includes soups, sauces, noodles, ready-to-eat meals, spreads and cooking fats, ice creams, and other products marketed under 14 brand names. Unilever recently rejected a GBP 115 billion merger approach from Kraft Heinz.
3. Diageo PLC
The company is a significant manufacturer of alcoholic drinks, particularly beer, and is one of the biggest distillers in the world. Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Bailey’s, and Guinness are among the company’s brands. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and its pre-tax earnings reached about GBP 3 billion at the end of 2016.
4. Associated British Foods PLC
Associated British Foods works in five segments: sugar, agriculture, retail, grocery, and ingredients. The company was created in 1935 and is located in the United Kingdom’s capital city of London. Food and beverages products include hot drinks, sugar and sweeteners, vegetable oils, bread and baked goods, cereals, ethnic foods, herbs and spices, and meat.
5. ABP Food Group
The company supplies beef, lamb, and sausage products to consumers worldwide and is one of the largest food processors in the United Kingdom and Europe. ABP Food Group is a deboning and beef processing company with a focus on retail packaging.
Scotch Prime Export, Surrey Farm, Herdsman, Dorset Crown, Wessex Foods, and Debbie & Andrew’s are the brand names under which the company sells its products.
6. United Biscuits
Through its subsidiaries, the company makes and sells biscuits, savoury snacks, and chilled and frozen foods. At the end of 2016, its pre-tax earnings exceeded GBP 105 million. It sells its products under the McVitie’s, Jacob’s, go ahead! Carr’s, Verkdale, BN, Sultana, Crawford’s, and Haansbro brand brands.
7. Noble Foods
The company serves shops and clients in the United Kingdom with eggs and egg products (including shell eggs, scrambled, boiled, and liquid eggs), sweets, animal feeds, and poultry products (including hens, chicks, and broiler breeders). In 1920, the company was created.
8. Lakeland Dairies
Lakeland Dairies provides a range of dairy products, including skim, fat-filled, and full cream milk powders; purified milk protein; dairy fats such as butterfat and cream; and ice cream and frozen yogurt. The company’s headquarters are located in Dublin, Ireland.
9. Moy Park
The company sells whole chickens, portions, deboned thighs, fillets, and mini fillets, ingredients, and livers; turkeys; cooked whole birds, marinated chicken, snacking products, and cooked sliced meats; and nuggets and goujons, chicken kievs, steaks and patties to retailers, restaurant chains, and food service providers in the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
10. Premier Foods PLC
Premier Foods PLC employs around 4,000 workers across 14 locations in the United Kingdom. It sells food of bakery and non-bakery products, such as bread, cakes, baking products, spreads and preserves, convenience foods, sweets, cooking sauces, stocks, gravies, pies, pickles, condiments, table sauces, salt, and stuffings.
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