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1951 Commenced as a single supermarket and part of a department store (owned by Howardsgate Holdings) in Welwyn Garden City | 1951 Commenced as a single supermarket and part of a department store (owned by [[Howardsgate Holdings]]) in Welwyn Garden City | ||
1962 [[Howardsgate Holdings]] was majority owned by [[Associated British Foods]] | 1962 [[Howardsgate Holdings]] was majority owned by [[Associated British Foods]] | ||
Revision as of 12:10, 14 March 2025
Food supermarkets (1951-1988)
1951 Commenced as a single supermarket and part of a department store (owned by Howardsgate Holdings) in Welwyn Garden City
1962 Howardsgate Holdings was majority owned by Associated British Foods [1]
1962 Owned more than 200 stores
By the end of 1962, the company had opened 130 new supermarkets in a period of 15 months.
1964 The MD is J. C. Jones. They have 300 supermarkets.[2]
1966 Fine Fare Holdings and Associated British Foods, both controlled by Garfield Weston and his family, purchased a controlling interest in Melias Ltd but did not intend to make an offer for rest at that time.[3]
ABF had been slowly selling its grocery businesses to its sister company, Fine Fare[4]
1967 James Gulliver appointed chairman.
1986 Acquired by Dee Corporation and the stores re-named as Gateway Foodmarkets