Farmfoods is a British

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and grocery

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chain based in

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, Scotland. It is owned by Eric Herd, and has over three hundred shops in the United Kingdom, of which more than a hundred are in Scotland.

History

The company started in 1955 as a meat-processing business. A shop was opened in

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in the 1970s, and by the mid-1980s the company had about twenty. In the 1990s it bought Capital Freezer Centres and Wallis Frozen Foods. In 2005 it had annual sales of just over £400 million, the highest of any private mid-market firm in Scotland in that year, and fourth-highest in the United Kingdom. In 2011 Farmfoods and

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made an unsuccessful bid for

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; Farmfoods would have acquired two hundred of the eight hundred stores. Archived 7 November 2011

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* {{UK supermarkets Supermarkets of the United Kingdom Retail companies of the United Kingdom Food and drink companies of Scotland Companies based in Aberdeen Privately held companies of Scotland Scottish brands Food and drink companies established in 1955 Retail companies established in 1955 1955 establishments in Scotland