William Jackson & Son Ltd
William Jackson & Son Ltd, t/a "William Jackson Food Group", is a 6th-generation family business, based in Kingston Upon Hull, East Yorkshire. The group owns a portfolio of five food businesses:
- Abel & Cole
- Jacksons Bakery
- MyFresh Prepared Produce
- Wellocks
- The Food Doctor
The businesses supply consumers, leading supermarkets, food service businesses and food manufacturers nationwide and abroad with a range of organic and non-organic food products. In addition, the group owns a pub, the "Ferguson Fawsitt Arms".
Although all manufacturing sites are based in England, 7,000+ ingredients and packaging are sourced from ~1,400 suppliers around the world, together with ~750 suppliers for indirect goods and services.
Corporate Grouping
- William Jackson & Son Ltd, CH
Aunt Bessie's:
- Apr.2008: name changed to Tryton
- Mar.2008: Aunt Bessie's Ltd reg.
- Owner: Wiliam Jackson Food Group Ltd.
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Timelines
- Aug.2004: Jacksons Stores, the supermarket division of the William Jackson company, was sold to Sainsbury's, and the company began to focus on food production rather than retail.ref
- William Jackson also owns the Jackson’s Yorkshire Champion Bread brands, a local pub, and The Food Doctor healthy snacks. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/04/aunt-bessies-sold-birds-eye-goodfellas-pizza
- https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/business/william-jackson-food-wellocks-bessies-1687599
- http://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/2008655-food-group-william-jackson-offloads-salad-processing-division
- https://www.stamford-partners.com/the-food-doctor-acquired-by-william-jackson-food-group/
- https://www.stamford-partners.com/william-jackson-sells-myfresh-wigan-to-agrial/
- http://www.foodbev.com/news/florette-buys-myfresh-prepared-produce-expand-uk-presence/
- https://deliciouslyorkshire.co.uk/member/william-jackson-food-group/
- https://www.chilli-uk.com/2018/03/william-jackson-launches-premium-frozen-brand-boxed-with-packaging-from-chilli/
- http://www.foodprocessing-technology.com/projects/jacksonsbakery/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/william-jackson-food-group
- https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2012/10/12/Food-manufacturer-William-Jackson-acquires-organic-Abel-Cole
- https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2015/12/11/Food-firm-to-expand-thanks-for-funding
- http://www.foodprocessing-technology.com/projects/jacksonsbakery/
- https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/business/william-jackson-food-wellocks-bessies-1687599
- https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/business/food-grocer-uk-biggest-names-2701720
WJFG owns a range of businesses, from Aunt Bessie’s to Abel & Cole, the meat and veg delivery box company it acquired three years ago.ref MyFresh, which was formed last year through the merger of the company’s Parripak and Hazeldene businesses, sells leafy salads to the Co-op supermarket chain, produces vegetables for M&S ready-meals and Domino’s pizzas, and supplies Nando's, Greggs, and KFC.
Jackson’s Bakery, which has been making bread on the same site in Hull since 1907, supplies 7% of all the bread used by sandwich manufacturers selling into the supermarkets.
The deal comes only a few weeks after Nomad bought Goodfellas, the UK’s biggest frozen pizza brand, from the food tycoon Ranjit Boparan. It will help the company strengthen its position in the UK, which it described as a “strategically important market”.