then, in 1980, adopted the name Argyll Foods after Gulliver's place of birth. In 1981 the company bought Oriel Foods, a food manufacturing and wholesaling...
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Safeway (UK) (section Acquisition by Argyll Foods)
was founded in 1962 by the American Safeway Inc., before being sold to Argyll Foods in 1987. It was later listed on the London Stock Exchange.[citation needed]...
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Suppliers was sold to Argyll Foods for £101 million. Argyll operated the Lo-cost supermarkets and Cordon Bleu Freezer Centres. In 1985, Argyll began a major re-organisation...
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Hintons (section Acquisition by Argyll Foods)
East of England trading as Hintons, it was acquired in a takeover by Argyll Foods in 1984. The company was founded by Amos Hinton in Middlesbrough in 1871...
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2017. Retrieved 31 March 2016. "Associated British Foods". The Accountant. 147: 824. 1962. "Argyll Supplies". Retail Business. No. 275–286. 1981. p. 17...
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for wearing with a sporran and kilt Argyll, Edmonton, a residential neighbourhood in Alberta, Canada Argyll Foods, a defunct British supermarket chain...
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their acquirers. Safeway plc, the operator of the UK stores, was sold to Argyll Foods, which itself was ultimately absorbed by Morrisons in 2004. Safeway Australia...
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Gerald Gulliver (17 August 1930 – 12 September 1996) was the founder of Argyll Foods, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail businesses. He was born in...
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Campbeltown (redirect from Kilkerran, Argyll)
Loch Chille Chiarain or Ceann Locha) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre Peninsula...
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Lipton (category Food manufacturers of Scotland)
became a supermarket chain focused on small towns. Allied was acquired by Argyll Foods in 1982; the supermarket business was rebranded as Presto during the...
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the following year it was acquired by James Gulliver's Argyll Foods; five years later Argyll merged with Safeway UK. Home and Colonial was one of three...
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board, becoming retail/wholesale controller. Edwards was a director of Argyll Foods until November 1983. He was elected to the Manchester United board in...
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Somerfield (redirect from Food Giant (UK retailer))
executive of the Dee Corporation, having escaped a takeover bid from Argyll Foods in 1981, decided to create his own supermarket empire. Three of the biggest...
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Argyll and Bute Council (Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Earra Ghàidheal is Bhòid) is one of the 32 local authorities of Scotland, covering the Argyll and...
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Cavenham Foods (also known as Cavenham) was a retail and food processing conglomerate started by Sir James Goldsmith in 1964. The company started out as...
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Kraft Foods in 2010. Cavenham Foods 1977 1965 Started by Sir James Goldsmith, began to decline, and was liquidated and sold mostly to Argyll Foods in 1986...
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(1745–1822), English smuggler James Gulliver (1930–1996), founder of Argyll Foods Julia Gulliver (1856–1940), American philosopher, educator and college...
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years. On 5 February 1979, he sold his business to James Gulliver of Argyll Foods for £100,000. The deal also included a 16 per cent stake in Manchester...
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Lochgilphead (redirect from Lochgilphead, Argyll)
and former burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, with a population of around 2,300 people. It is the administrative centre of Argyll and Bute Council. The...
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sold off in 1980 to Fine Fare, with the remaining 67 branches sold to Argyll Foods in 1982. In 1984, International Stores was sold to the Dee Corporation...
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2007-03-06. Ibrahim, Youssef M (1996-09-17). "James Gulliver, Chairman Of Food Group, Dies at 66". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2013-04-07...
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Safeway (Channel Islands) (category Food retailers of Jersey)
in Jersey and one in Guernsey. The chain was founded in 1993, when Argyll Foods's Safeway division acquired them off a local businessman, Mr M D Besant...
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banker with the Royal Bank of Scotland, and James Gulliver, founder of Argyll Foods. Grossart's initial investment of £30,000 grew into over £300 million...
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Gaelic: Àth na Crà) is a small village at the southern end of Loch Awe in Argyll, Scotland. The village originated as a stopping point on the drove route...
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Cardross (redirect from Cardross, Argyll and Bute)
geographical county of Dunbartonshire but the modern political local authority of Argyll and Bute. Cardross Village took its name from the historic parish in which...
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Lycium barbarum (redirect from Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree)
United Kingdom it is also known as Duke of Argyll's tea tree after Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll who introduced it in the country in the 1730s...
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Lorne sausage (category Sliced foods)
making your own - Scotsman Food & Drink". Scotsman Food & Drink. 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-11-05. "Lorne Sausage, Argyll". Information Britain. Retrieved...
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The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's), or A & SH of C, is a Primary Reserve Highland infantry regiment of the Canadian Armed...
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Prue Leith (redirect from Leiths School of Food and Wine)
non-executive director of British Rail; British Transport Hotels; Safeway; Argyll plc, the Leeds Permanent Building Society; Whitbread plc; Woolworths plc;...
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Bidfood (redirect from Swithenbank Fresh & Fine Foods)
the acquired businesses of Giffords Fine Foods and Swithenbank were merged to form Swithenbank Fresh & Fine Foods, to operate as a single fresh produce division...
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