1924 Company formed by Samuel Wallace Smedley of Evesham when he bought the old Crosse and Blackwell jam making factory at Wisbech
1931 Built a factory at West Marsh Road, Spalding
1937 Opened a bottling plant at Evesham
1968 Imperial Tobacco Co acquired National Canning Co, owner of Smedley's
Smedley's became part of Imperial Foods
1972 Put into holding company with other subsidiaries of Imperial: Smedley-H.P. Foods
1981 Brand leader in canned goods vegetables, merged with Tozer, Kemsley and Millbourn (Holdings), leader in own-brand canned goods[1] as TKM Foods.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times Mar 13, 1981