Howardsgate Holdings
of Welwyn Garden City
Owners of Fine Fare
1962 Associated British Foods' "great supermarket company"[1]
1963 ABF sold 51 percent of the company to Dicoa Investment Holdings of Canada, another member of the George Weston Group; this released funds for investment and brought in North American management with experience of supermarkets that was lacking in Britain. Howardsgate had 650 shops including 275 Fine Fare supermarkets.[2]