UK food producer Northern Foods has welcomed a deadline set by regulators of January 21 for Harry Ramsden's owner Ranjit Boparan to make a takeover bid for the company.
Northern Foods – producer of Fox’s biscuits and Goodfellas pizza as well as retailer own brand ready meals – is strongly in favour of a merger with Irish food manufacturer Greencore Group, as opposed to any takeover by Boparan. Under the arrangement of the merger, agreed in November, the two companies will become Essenta Foods.…
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