Ranks Hovis McDougall
RHM, known more fully as Rank Hovis McDougall was a United Kingdom food business.
- It owned a number of leading brands including:
- Bisto gravy
- Be-Ro Flour
- Hovis bread and flour
- Mr Kipling cakes
- Paxo stuffing
- Sharwood's Indian, Chinese and SE Asian sauces
- Mother's Pride bread
- Cadbury's cakes (manufactured under licence from Cadbury Schweppes)
- Atora shredded suet
- Saxa salt
- Cerebos salt
- McDougalls flour and cake mixes
- Robertson's jams
- Frank Cooper's jams
- Rombouts coffee
- The company dated back to the merger in 1962 of flour millers Hovis, owner of Hovis and Be-Ro, and Joseph Rank.
- Purchased by Tomkins plc in 1992, it was delisted from the London Stock Exchange for a period of 13 years until, under new management, the company was again listed on the LSE in July 2005.
- In March 2007, RHM plc ceased to exist as the entire share capital was bought over by rival Premier Foods.
Sources of Information
- [1] Wikipedia