Smedley-HP Foods
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.