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Argyll Foods plc was the fourth biggest supermarket operator in the United Kingdom, through its acquisitions of a number of smaller supermarkets. In 1987 the company acquired Safeway Inc.'s UK subsidiary and in 1996 it changed its name to Safeway plc.
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In September 1978, he bought the meat company belonging to Manchester United chairman Louis Edwards for £100,000 plus shares and renamed it Argyll Foods, acquiring numerous retail concerns including 130 Safeway outlets. Within 10 years of the purchase, the company was worth £1.7 billion.
Our second year of The Argyll Food Festival will take place at The Corran Halls in Oban on September the 28 & 29th. A weekend of family fun, food, drink and entertainment. Come along and meet local artisan food and drink producers, taste their food and drink and take some home!
In 1983 Argyll Foods was merged with Amalgamated Distilled Products (ADP), a liquor company Gulliver and his associates had controlled since 1979. ADP produced Scotch whisky and dark rum, and ran a 300-unit discount liquor chain called Liquorsave.
1987 Argyll Foods owned the following: Liptons, Presto, Templeton, Galbraith, Lo-Cost, Cordon Bleu, Mojo, Snowking Frozen Food, Argyll Quality Foods, Gold Crown Foods, and Liverpool Central Oil. The group employs 30,200 persons (11,700 part-time).
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