Hunter takes 13.4 per cent slice of Big Food Group

The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 19, 2004 ;     315 words ......agreed to buy Big Food Group for pounds 326m, or 95p...agreed to pay pounds 35m into Big Food Group's pension scheme...a deficit of pounds 192m. It will...contributions by around pounds 14m over a three-ye...Grimsey, the Big Food Group's chief executive...

Big Food Group plans recovery; INVESTMENT: Ambitious rejuvenation scheme...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  March 7, 2002 ;     524 words ......see Iceland raise pounds 375m to fund a...rejuvenate the food group will be raised...executive of The Big Food Group, said he had every...yesterday include a pounds 43m programme for...formats. A further pounds 12m will be invested...shopping business and pounds 50m is ...

Investors agree to purchase UK Big Food Group

China Daily;  December 20, 2004 ;     513 words ......valuing Big Food Group at 326 million pounds (US$633 million...2.28 billion pounds in the fiscal...September 17, Big Food Group said last month...some of Big Food Group's real estate...for 213 million pounds (US$400.44 million...

Celebrations at Big Food Group; PROFITS BOOST: Recovery on track, says...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  May 31, 2002 ;     403 words ......yesterday The Big Food group unveiled pre-tax profits for the year of pounds 42.9m before one-o...package, with a new pounds 300m debt facility...back customers. Big Food Group said like-for-like...announced by The Big Food Group yesterday reinforced...across the group ...

Iceland's pounds 6.9m loss throws chill over Big Food Group...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  November 8, 2002 ;     513 words ......BARRY TROUBLED retailer Big Food Group unveiled another depressing...half-year operating losses of pounds 6.9m, against profits last year of pounds 8m, and it was only the success...Overall group turnover fell from pounds 2.45bn a year ago to pounds...

Big Food Group in double offer bid.(Business)

The Birmingham Post (England);  December 19, 2003 ;     309 words ......Staff Iceland retailer Big Food Group yesterday tried to snatch the...shareholders. Big Food will make its pounds 40.3 million bid if shareholders...from being part of the Big Food Group. 'We strongly urge them to...the Musgrave offer that gives pounds 20.2 million to just ...

Food group completes finance package.(Business)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  June 19, 2002 ;     125 words ...THE Big Food Group has confirmed the successful implementation of...company's senior debt facilities, it has included a pounds 129.3m sale and leaseback of properties, as reported...are now able to develop the potential of The Big Food Group.''

Food group completes its move to region

Yorkshire Post;  September 1, 2004 ;     502 words ......ONE of Britain's biggest food producers, the [Pounds]2bn turnover Grampian Country Food Group, has completed its move to...and Unilever in terms of UK food sales, and only Associated...St Merryn Food Group, the [Pounds]350m turnover beef and lamb...Uniq. With a turnover ...

MARKET REPORT: Merrill Lynch sees a less chilly future for Big Food Group

The Independent - London;  May 23, 2002 ;     630 words ......frozen foods retailer The Big Food Group has had something of a renaissance...following Monday's news of a pounds 125m sale and leaseback deal...shares at 240p each, netting him pounds 1.2m. Mr Martin retains a stake...posted a full-year profit of pounds 1.2m, up from pounds ...

'This is a big mess and not what I was expecting' This week Bill Grimsey...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ...The Big Food Group - formerly known as Iceland...been plummeting and the pounds 325m merger with Booker...rights issue to raise the pounds 200m he needs to begin...will opt to raise about pounds 150m by selling and leasing back some of the group's pounds 350m worth of freehold...he ...

Newly-formed food group aims to sweeten market in flotation

Yorkshire Post;  December 15, 2003 ;     310 words ...James Graham A NEW food group, which has a major production...to acquire three established food companies - Napier Brown...fudge. The placing has raised [Pounds]9m which will be used to part-fu...the development of a major UK food group. "We have acquired an excellent...

NO PAIN NO GAIN: After a decade of disasters, food group begins to look...

The Independent - London;  November 10, 2001 ;     654 words ......across Albert Fisher, the food group that seems to have stumbled...industry. In 1982, sales were pounds 7m a year; when he departed...exceptionals there was a pounds 6m profit (with a sharp...second six months) against pounds 3.6m in the previous year...should make profits of pounds ...

Food group rides Crest of a wave.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  November 10, 2006 ;     134 words ...Food group Dairy Crest was yesterday poised...buy St Hubert from Uniq for pounds 248m. St Hubert holds a 31...Somerfield in September worth around pounds 900m in the next five years...out restructuring costs of pounds 1.8m ( came in at pounds 17m...

British food group Wincanton appears ripe for acquisition.

Daily Mail (London);  October 30, 2004 ;     521 words ......a pretty sight) there was a food group called Unigate, which was not...than doubled to 1.7 billion pounds. The shares have not kept pace...is now valued at 280 million pounds. The Glaxo deal is worth much...reward for the 153 million pounds acquisition of P&O's trans-Europe...

MARKET REPORT: Big Food Group slides on whispers of property deal collapse

The Independent - London;  May 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ...THE BIG Food Group, formerly Iceland, has been...British Land, aimed at unlocking pounds 250m for the company, has collapsed. In March Big Food Group said it intended to fund a...of the year. Yesterday Big Food Group fell 4.5p to 82p. Apart...reckon could now be as high as ...