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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Food |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Huntingdon, United Kingdom |
Key people | Robert Watson (Chairman) Philip Heffer (CEO) |
| Revenue |  £3,989.5 million (2023) [1] |
| £86.1 million (2023) [1] | |
| £38.0 million (2023) [1] | |
| Website | www |
Hilton Food Group plc is a food packaging business. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The company was established to operate a beef and lamb central meat packing facility in Huntingdon in 1994. [2] It was the subject of an initial public offering in May 2007 which valued the business at circa £105 million. [3] It went on to acquire Seachill, a supplier of chilled and frozen salmon, in November 2017. [2]
The company has six factories and sells its products in supermarkets across fourteen countries in Europe. [2] It also has a joint venture in Australia with Woolworths Group, a retail business, to undertaking meat processing activities for its stores [4] and a joint venture in Portugal with Sonae Modelo Continente, another retail business, to provide packaged meats for its stores. [5]
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