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Hilton Food Group plc is a food packaging business. It is listed on the
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and is a constituent of the
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.


History

The company was established to operate a beef and lamb central meat packing facility in
Huntingdon Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district in Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver Cromwell was born there ...
in 1994. It was the subject of an
initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment ...
in May 2007 which valued the business at circa £105 million. It went on to acquire Seachill, a supplier of chilled and frozen salmon, in November 2017.


Operations

The company has six factories and sells its products in supermarkets across fourteen countries in Europe. It also has a joint venture in
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with Woolworths Group, a retail business, to undertaking meat processing activities for its stores and a joint venture in
Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
with Sonae Modelo Continente, another retail business, to provide packaged meats for its stores.


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* {{Authority control Companies based in Cambridgeshire 1994 establishments in the United Kingdom Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange Food processing industry in the United Kingdom