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