Northern Foods
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Northern Foods plc is a British food manufacturer headquartered in Leeds in the north of England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
Northern Foods grew out of the milk producer and retailer Northern Dairies although the dairying division was sold in the 1990s.
Northern Foods focuses mainly on convenience foods such as ready meals, chilled savoury pastries, biscuits, snacks, frozen pizza and pastry products. It owns the Goodfella's, Fox's, Elkes, Dalepak, and Pork Farms Bowyers brands and also produces own brand products for major retailers. The majority of its sales are made to the four big UK supermarket chains (Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons) and also to Marks & Spencer. Turnover for the 52 weeks to 2 April 2005 was £1,448.8 million.
In 2005 Northern Foods closed one of its three factories in Carlisle which were originally owned by the Cavaghan and Gray or Cavray Group.
