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Argyll Foods
Company typePublic
IndustryRetail
Founded1977
Defunct1996
FateName changed to Safeway
SuccessorSafeway (UK)
HeadquartersHayes, 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.

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