Thomas Linnell and Sons
of Gladstone Road, Northampton
1881 Established
1928 Company formed. 'Thomas Linnell and Sons, Limited (231010), registered June 6, to take over the business of a wholesale grocer and provision merchant, carried at 26 and 28, Spencer-road, 50, Bailiff street, and Cambridge street, Northampton, as "Thomas Linnell." Nominal capital, £20,000 in £1 shares. Permanent directors: T. Linnell, Gayton House, The Drive; F. J. Linnell, "Lyngwood," 173, Birchfield-road East; R. E. Linnell, Gaytom House; G. G. Linnell, Norfolk House, 16, The Drive.'[1]
1970 'supply 390 Spar stores in an area extending from Birmingham to Dover.'[2]
1971 'Thomas Linnell and Sons, the Spar wholesale grocers who operate cash and carry depots in Coventry and Rugby, have bought the Burtons Group of East Anglia'. Head office in Northampton and the MD is David Linnell.[3]
1972 Acquire G. N. Beaulah. Linnells have eight cash-and-carry warehouses, three delivery warehouses and thirty retail outlets.[4]
1973 The Lynn branch of Thomas Linnell and Sons, formerly Lincolnshire and Norfolk Dairies.[5]
1974 Merged with Associated Food Holdings. Both firms are trading as Spar-Vivo.[6]
1975 The new group was named Linfood Holdings