Overview
Associated British Foods is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £13.4bn, 130,000 employees and operations in 50 countries across Europe, southern Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia.
We aim to achieve strong, sustainable leadership positions in markets that offer potential for profitable growth, and deliver quality products and services that are central to people’s lives.
Our business is split into five segments: Grocery; Sugar; Agriculture; Ingredients; and Retail.
Grocery
Twinings and Ovaltine are our global hot beverage brands.
Market leader in UK sugar with Silver Spoon and Billington’s. Other major brands include Jordans and Dorset cereals, Ryvita, Kingsmill, Patak’s and Blue Dragon.
Mazola is the leader in corn oil in the US. Capullo is a premium canola oil in Mexico. Tone’s, Spice Islands and Durkee are US herbs and spices brands.
Ham, bacon and smallgoods under Don and KRC brands. Tip Top Bakeries produce a range of well-known breads and baked goods.
Sugar
Our UK and Spanish beet sugar factories produce over two million tonnes of sugar annually and Vivergo Fuels produces 420 million litres of bioethanol each year.
We operate two well-invested and profitable beet sugar factories in Hebei and Inner Mongolia, with annual sugar production of some 180,000 tonnes.
Illovo is Africa’s largest sugar producer with agricultural and production facilities in six countries. Typical annual sugar production of 1.7 million tonnes.
Agriculture
AB Agri operates at the heart of the agricultural industry. Its unique breadth and experience enable it to add value all along the food, drink and biofuel industry supply chains.
AB Agri supplies products and services to farmers, feed and food manufacturers, processors and retailers. It also buys grain from farmers and supplies crop inputs through its joint venture arable operation, Frontier Agriculture.
AB Agri employs more than 2,200 people in the UK and China and markets products in more than 65 countries worldwide.
Ingredients
AB Mauri operates globally in both yeast and bakery ingredient production with 50 plants, a presence in 32 countries and sales in over 90 countries, supporting and enabling the worlds bakers, both large and small, across craft/artisan and industrial.
ABF Ingredients focuses on high-value ingredients for food and non-food applications. It manufactures and markets enzymes, lipids, yeast extracts, and cereal specialities worldwide with manufacturing facilities in Europe and the US.
Retail
Primark is a major retail group employing approximately 60,000 permanent employees. It operates over 300 stores in eleven countries: the UK, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, France Italy and US.
It offers customers high quality commercial fashion at value for money prices, put simply, “Amazing Fashion, Amazing Prices”.
Buying and merchandising teams in Dublin (Republic of Ireland) and Reading (UK) travel internationally to source and buy fashion items that best reflect each season’s key fashion trends. Primark’s range includes womenswear, lingerie, childrenswear, menswear, footwear, accessories, hosiery and homeware.