The old Liptons, Galbraith, Templeton and Presto logos
Company type
Public
Industry
Retail
Founded
1977
Defunct
1996
Fate
Name changed to Safeway
Successor
Safeway (UK)
Headquarters
Hayes, UK
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
James Gulliver, (Chairman)
Argyll Foods plc was the fourth biggest supermarket operator in the United Kingdom, through its acquisitions of a number of smaller supermarkets. In 1987 the company acquired Safeway Inc.'s UK subsidiary and in 1996 it changed its name to Safeway plc.
then, in 1980, adopted the name ArgyllFoods after Gulliver's place of birth. In 1981 the company bought Oriel Foods, a food manufacturing and wholesaling...
East of England trading as Hintons, it was acquired in a takeover by ArgyllFoods in 1984. The company was founded by Amos Hinton in Middlesbrough in 1871...
their acquirers. Safeway plc, the operator of the UK stores, was sold to ArgyllFoods, which itself was ultimately absorbed by Morrisons in 2004. Safeway Australia...
the United Kingdom established by Sir Thomas Lipton, which was sold to ArgyllFoods by owners Allied Suppliers in 1982, after which the brand has been used...
Loch Chille Chiarain or Ceann Locha) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula...
FRSE FRSA FICE (17 August 1930 – 12 September 1996) was the founder of ArgyllFoods, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail businesses. He was born in...
the following year it was acquired by James Gulliver's ArgyllFoods; five years later Argyll merged with Safeway UK. Home and Colonial was one of three...
board, becoming retail/wholesale controller. Edwards was a director of ArgyllFoods until November 1983. He was elected to the Manchester United board in...
Argyll and Bute Council (Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Earra Ghàidheal is Bhòid) is one of the 32 local authorities of Scotland, covering the Argyll and...
executive of the Dee Corporation, having escaped a takeover bid from ArgyllFoods in 1981, decided to create his own supermarket empire. Three of the biggest...
Kraft Foods in 2010. Cavenham Foods 1977 1965 Started by Sir James Goldsmith, began to decline, and was liquidated and sold mostly to ArgyllFoods in 1986...
years. On 5 February 1979, he sold his business to James Gulliver of ArgyllFoods for £100,000. The deal also included a 16 per cent stake in Manchester...
Cavenham Foods (also known as Cavenham) was a retail and food processing conglomerate started by Sir James Goldsmith in 1964. The company started out as...
and former burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, with a population of around 2,300 people. It is the administrative centre of Argyll and Bute Council. The...
2007-03-06. Ibrahim, Youssef M (1996-09-17). "James Gulliver, Chairman Of Food Group, Dies at 66". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2013-04-07...
banker with the Royal Bank of Scotland, and James Gulliver, founder of ArgyllFoods. Grossart's initial investment of £30,000 grew into over £300 million...
United Kingdom it is also known as Duke of Argyll's tea tree after Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll who introduced it in the country in the 1730s...
geographical county of Dunbartonshire but the modern political local authority of Argyll and Bute. Cardross Village took its name from the historic parish in which...
the acquired businesses of Giffords Fine Foods and Swithenbank were merged to form Swithenbank Fresh & Fine Foods, to operate as a single fresh produce division...
island of the larger County of Bute, it is now part of the council area of Argyll and Bute. Bute's resident population was 6,498 in 2011, a decline of just...