Carr & Co Ltd

Sectors:

  • Food & tobacco processing Biscuit & snacks production
  • Food & tobacco processing Grain milling inc flour, starch & glucose products

Notes:

Traced origins to Jonathan D Carr, d1884, who established a baking, biscuit making and grain milling business at Carlisle in the early 1830s. As J D Carr & Co in 1841 received royal warrant for its biscuits. 1894 incorporated. A public company 1927. 1908 grain milling business hived off into Carr's Flour Mills Ltd. 1910 acquired Kosher Biscuits & Passover Cakes of London and held it in Bonn & Co Ltd. Acquired by Cavenham Foods Ltd in 1964 and in 1972 acquired by United Biscuits Ltd

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