Hovis Ltd

Sectors:

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

Notes:

Traces origins to the Macclesfield millers, S Fitton & Son. Known as Hovis Bread Flour Co Ltd from 1898 and as Hovis Ltd from 1911. Also bakers. Merged with McDougall Trust Ltd in 1957 to form Hovis McDougall Ltd and with Joseph Rank Ltd in 1962 to form Ranks Hovis McDougall Ltd. Latterly RHM Plc

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