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Farmfoods
Farmfoods is the name of a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. Farmfoods specialise in frozen food and also gain sales through snack foods such as sweets, crisps and soft drinks.
Farmfoods is one of the most successful privately-owned businesses in the United Kingdom and has traded profitably for nearly 50 years.
From its roots as an Aberdeen-based meat manufacturing business, Farmfoods began to freeze products to enable a wider geographical distribution to catering outlets. Steadily, products were dispatched further afield, to major Scottish cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh and with growth, further lines such as McCain chips were introduced.
By 1975 the entire business had changed and focused on retail rather than wholesale supply. An experimental freezer centre was set up in Aberdeen and was very successful. A further 10 freezer centres were introduced and the modern Farmfoods was formed.
Farmfoods operated 31 stores in 1988 and gained initial entry into England through the acquisition of 18 stores from Wallis Frozen Foods .
As of April 2005, Farmfoods operates from over 300 specialist freezer centres stretching from Invergordon in the North of Scotland to London in the South of England.
Farmfoods stores are typically located in city and town centres, often in shopping centres.
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