Smedley's
1924 Company formed by Samuel Wallace Smedley of Evesham when he bought the old Crosse and Blackwell jam making factory at Wisbech
1931 Built a factory at West Marsh Road, Spalding
1937 Opened a bottling plant at Evesham
1959 One of 7 firms in Britain distributing frozen food nationally[1]
1968 Imperial Tobacco Co acquired National Canning Co, owner of Smedley's
Smedley's became part of Imperial Foods
1972 Put into holding company with other subsidiaries of Imperial as Smedley-HP Foods
1972 One of the operating companies was Smedley Ross Foods Ltd., of Worstead, North Walsham.
1981 Smedley's, brand leader in canned goods vegetables, was separated from Imperial Foods[2] and merged into TKM Foods a leader in own-brand canned goods.
1983 Acquired by Hillsdown Holdings