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Horizon Biscuit Co

From Graces Guide

A subsidiary of Hillsdown Holdings

1997 Company incorporated

1998 'Horizon Biscuit Co Ltd, a core division of Hillsdown Holdings operates three manufacturing sites in the UK (Moreton, Harlow - Essex, Blackpool - Lancashire). Horizon Biscuits. Horizon Biscuits market some of the best known biscuits in the UK including Cadbury's biscuits (eg. Cadbury Fingers), and Maryland Cookies, together with a broad range of customer label products.[1]

2000 Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst acquired Burton's Gold Medal Biscuits, and merged it with Horizon, Hillsdown Holdings' biscuit business, [2] to form Burton's Foods

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Sources of Information

  1. Liverpool Echo - Thursday 28 May 1998
  2. The Times, December 31, 2003