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Smedley-HP Foods

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of Wisbech, Spalding, Surfleet, Aston Cross, Faversham, Erichside, and Caversham and others

1972 Imperial Foods brought together 2 of its foods businesses, H. P. Sauce and Smedley's, as Smedley-HP Foods[1] making HP Sauce, Daddies Favourite Sauce, Daddies Tomato Ketchup and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce.

1981 Smedley's was separated [2] as TKM Foods.

1986 Hanson Trust acquired Imperial

1988 Hanson Trust sold HP Foods to French company BSN, maker of Danone yoghurt[3]

2005 June Heinz purchased the parent company, HP Foods, from Danone.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Sept. 25, 1972
  2. The Times Mar 13, 1981
  3. The Times July 7, 1988