Heron Foods
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Heron Foods Ltd. (formerly Heron Frozen Foods Ltd and Grindells Butchers Ltd) is an English supermarket chain founded in 1979 and based in Melton with 293 stores as of 1 July 2020.[2]
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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Food retail |
Founded | 1979; 45 years ago (1979) Kingston upon Hull, England[1] |
Founder | Malcolm Heuck |
Headquarters | , England |
Number of locations | 293 as of 1 July 2020[2] |
Area served | England Wales |
Revenue | £194.7 million (2012)[3][needs update] |
£6.7 million (2012)[3][needs update] | |
£3.2 million (2012)[3][needs update] | |
Number of employees | 4,915 (2020)[3] |
Parent | B&M |
Website | www |
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It primarily sells frozen food, but has a wide range of ambient and chilled stock with named brands including Muller, Birds Eye and McCain Foods, as well as several lines using the Heron Foods brand.
B&M announced in August 2017 that it had purchased Heron Foods for £152 million, a deal that was described as a "no brainer" by B&M's CEO Simon Arora.[4]