McDougalls Ltd

Sectors:

  • Food & tobacco processing Baking inc baking of cakes
  • Food & tobacco processing Grain milling inc flour, starch & glucose products

Notes:

Traced origins to 1864 when traded as McDougall Brothers. Early on built large port mills in Manchester and London and emerged as a leading UK grain milling business. Developed a yeast substitute and marketed self raising flour. Converted to a public company in 1933. 1957 merged with Hovis to form Hovis McDougall Ltd which in 1962 was acquired by Ranks Ltd to form Ranks Hovis McDougall Ltd, later RHM Plc

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