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Article: Multi-million pound firm began life as milk business in 1880
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- Hull Daily Mail (UK)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2009
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Northern Foods is one of the best-known businesses in Hull.
The shoots for the multi-million pound company began as early as
1880 with Pape and Co Ltd, a small condensed milk-importing and
wholesaling business in the city.
But the business officially began life in 1937 at Holme-on-
Spalding Moor, near Market Weighton, as a family-run dairy, started
by Alec Horsley.
In 1942, the business was registered as Northern Dairies and it
became a public company in 1956. The firm changed its name to
Northern Foods in 1972 to reflect the range of products it sold.
In the late 1970s, in partnership with one of its customers,
Northern Foods pioneered the development of the chilled ready meal.
In 1985, ...