Bowyers (Wiltshire) Ltd

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  • Food & tobacco processing Meat processing

Notes:

Established 1808 by Abraham Bowyer. By 1850s were wholesale bacon curers, cheesefactors, millers and grocers. Increasingly focused on meat processing and incorporated 1890 as Bowyer Philpott & Co Ltd. 1898 acquired Payne, Trowbridge, Bacon Co and renamed Bowyer Philpott & Payne Ltd. c1920s known as Bowyers (Wiltshire Bacon) Ltd and, later, as Bowyers (Wiltshire) Ltd. Expanded rapidly from 1950s to become in early 1970s second largest meat processor in UK. As Scot Bowyer Ltd, acquired by Unigate Ltd in 1972 and sold on to Northern Foods Plc in 1985

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