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Home > Company Index > Food, Beverage & Tobacco > Diversified Food - Major > Northern Foods plc

Northern Foods plc
 PROFILE
Scotch eggs, meat pies, and Chinese take-away - Northern Foods is in step with today's British consumers One of the UK's largest food manufacturers, Northern Foods makes prepared and convenience foods under retailers' brands (such as Marks and Spencer's popular St Michael label) and its own brand names. Products include Fox's Biscuits, Batchelors canned foods, Hollands pies, Lift instant tea, Ski yogurt, entrees, pizza, fruit juices, and baked goods. Marks and Spencer accounts for about 30% of Northern Foods' sales; the J Sainsbury, Tesco, Safeway, and ASDA supermarket chains are also major customers. The company's NFT Distribution subsidiary ships its chilled foods across the UK.

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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: March
2001 Sales (mil.): 1,951.50
1-Yr. Sales Growth: (8.4)%
Employees: 21,000
Revenue per employee: $92,928.57

 KEY PEOPLE
• Jo Stewart
    CEO
• Sean Christie
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
Beverley House, St. Stephen's Sq.
Hull HU1 3XG, United Kingdom
Phone: 44-1482-325-432
Fax: 44-1482-226-136
Online: Web Site

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