Associated British Foods: version 1

Saved 2026-09-11 04:49 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **product/05055953900599 — Twinings Original Earl Grey 200 g tin**, the corpus's first tea and its first product under a GS1 UK prefix, with five stubs: `brand/twinings`, `company/associated-bri. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# Associated British Foods <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Associated British Foods
legal_name: Associated British Foods plc
country: GB
founded: 1935
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------ | ------ | ---- |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                         | type   | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Associated British Foods plc | legal  | en     |      |       |
| ABF                          | search | en     |      |       |
| Allied Bakeries Limited      | name   | en     | 1935 | 1960  |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref           | url                                                    | title                               | accessed   |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------- | ---------- |
| wiki-abf      | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_British_Foods | Wikipedia: Associated British Foods | 2026-09-11 |
| wiki-twinings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinings                 | Wikipedia: Twinings                 | 2026-09-11 |
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## About <!--about-->
British multinational food processing and retailing group, headquartered in London, listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100. It was founded by the Canadian businessman W. Garfield Weston in 1935 as Food Investments Limited, renamed Allied Bakeries Limited a month later and Associated British Foods in 1960. Its ingredients division is the world's fourth-largest sugar producer and second-largest producer of baker's yeast; its grocery division carries Twinings alongside Ovaltine, Ryvita, Jordans, Kingsmill and Mazola, and its retail division is Primark.[^wiki-abf] Twinings was acquired in 1964.[^wiki-twinings]
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