Young's Seafoods
From Graces Guide
1805 Young’s started as a whitebait business, founded by Elizabeth Young and her family who were watermen and fishermen on the Thames at Greenwich.
Later became famous for its potted shrimp, sold in distinctive blue pottery jars - see Youngs Potted Shrimp.
Young's was responsible for a number of notable seafood firsts, including the commercialisation of scampi in the UK from 1946 and the marketing of the very first frozen prawns.
1969 Imperial Tobacco Co acquired Young's Seafoods[1]
1986 Imperial Foods merged the catering arm of its frozen foods subsidiaries Ross Foods and Young's Seafood to form Ross Young's Foodservice[2]
The Young family remained involved until the late 1980s.
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Sources of Information
- [1] Company website