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Associated British Foods is to close its Twinings tea factory in North Shields with the loss of 260 jobs, and a further 130 jobs will be lost in Andover, in order to transfer production to Poland and China. 04-Nov-2009 Associated British Foods is to sell its Polish sugar operation to Pfeifer & Langen for undisclosed terms. 12-Aug-2009 Associated British Foods is to acquire Azucarera, the Spanish sugar supplier, from Ebro Puleva for £326m. 24-Nov-2008 Associated British Foods is to merge its Ryvita crispbread business with W Jordan & Sons, the Bedfordshire-based cereals manufacturer with 350 staff, which should lead to savings in back-office costs. 03-Jun-2008 Associated British Foods is to close the Patak's frozen foods factory in Dundee in March, with the loss of 60 jobs. 04-Feb-2008 Associated British Foods has closed its Zest Foods factory at Newtown in Mid Wales with the loss of about 25 jobs, in order to transfer production to Poland. 10-Jan-2008 Associated British Foods has acquired a 20% stake in W Jordan & Son, the Bedford-based cereals manufacturer, for about £15m. 17-Sep-2007 Associated British Foods is to invest £70m in a sugar beet processing business with Tian Lu in the North East of China. 27-Aug-2007 BP is linking up with Associated British Foods and DuPont to build a £200m biofuels plant at Saltend, Hull, by 2009, with the creation of up to 85 jobs. 27-Jun-2007 Associated British Foods has acquired Patak's, the Lancashire-based supplier of Asian foods, for an estimated initial price of £100m. 30-May-2007 Associated British Foods is to close two British Sugar factories in York and Shropshire at the end of next year, with the loss of up to 219 jobs. 05-Jul-2006 Associated British Foods is to acquire a 51% stake in Illovo Sugar, the South African sugar company, for £317m. 22-May-2006 Associated British Foods is to invest £250m in the refurbishment of 41 recently-acquired Littlewoods stores. 09-Nov-2005 Associated British Foods is to increase the number of stores retained from the acquisition of Littlewoods for its Primark clothing chain from the previously-announced ten to about 40. 13-Sep-2005 Associated British Foods is planning to sell off a 60-acre disused British Sugar site in Kidderminster to a property developer. 15-Aug-2005 Associated British Foods has acquired the Littlewoods chain of 120 clothing stores for £409m, which will involve the conversion of 30 stores to the Primark format and the closure of the Liverpool head office with the loss of up to 270 jobs. 12-Jul-2005 Associated British Foods has acquired Burns Philp, the Australian yeast, herbs and spices company, for £730m. 23-Jul-2004 Associated British Foods is to acquire The Billington Food Group, the Ipswich-based importer of unrefined raw cane sugars with net assets of £7.7m. 28-May-2004 Associated British Foods is to acquire the Mexican oils and fats business of Unilever for £65m. 10-Mar-2004 Associated British Foods has acquired G Costa, the speciality food company and owner of the Blue Dragon brand, for undisclosed terms. 22-Dec-2003 Associated British Foods is looking to spend some of its £1.2bn cash pile on acquisitions. 05-Nov-2003 Associated British Foods is seeking further acquisitions in the beverages sector, following the recent purchase of Ovaltine. 17-Apr-2003 Associated British Foods is said to be planning to launch an estimated £300m takeover bid for Aviagen, the chicken breeding business owned by BC Partners. 17-Feb-2003 Associated British Foods has sold six flour mills to Archer Daniels Midland for an estimated £70m, including sites in Liverpool, Knottingley, Corby, Tewkesbury, Edinburgh and Castleford. 20-Dec-2002 Associated British Foods has sold its Allied Glass Containers packaging business to a management team backed by Close Brothers Private Equity. 17-Dec-2002 Associated British Foods is looking to make further acquisitions, and could spend up to £1bn. 06-Nov-2002 Associated British Foods is to acquire the Ovaltine malt drink and ten other brands from Novartis of Switzerland for £171m. 09-Oct-2002 Associated British Foods is said to be considering plans to sell off its Primark chain of clothing stores, as well as its Allied Glass Containers packaging business, for about £850m. 15-Jul-2002 Associated British Foods is planning to acquire the remaining 19% of George Weston Foods in Australia for £59m. 08-Jul-2002 Associated British Foods is to acquire the Mazola corn products business in the US and 18 other brands from Unilever for £248m. 24-Apr-2002 Associated British Foods is looking to spend up to £900m on acquisitions. 18-Apr-2002 Associated British Foods is looking to spend up to £800m on acquisitions, and is thought to be interested in food ingredients businesses. 19-Apr-2001 Associated British Foods has announced a £130m exceptional charge to rationalise its business, which will involve acquisitions and the sale of commodity operations. 09-Nov-2000 Associated British Foods is to sell its Burton's Biscuits subsidiary to Hicks Muse Tate & Furst of the US for £130m, in order to focus on products where it has a leading market position. 30-Oct-2000 Associated British Foods has bought the polyols business of Lonza for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its US-based SPI Polyols division. 14-Jul-2000 Associated British Foods is planning to use its £1bn cash pile to make acquisitions, and aims to increase its focus on food manufacturing and withdraw from sectors with overcapacity. 09-Nov-1999 Associated British Foods has bought six animal feed mills from Dalgety for about £10m. 04-Nov-1999 Associated British Foods is acquiring Rohm Enzyme, the food enzymes company, from Degussa-Huls of Germany for undisclosed terms. 02-Nov-1999 Associated British Foods is looking to acquire small North American companies in order to use their technologies to expand into new products and markets. 03-Nov-1998 Associated British Foods is acquiring SPI Holding Company, the US supplier of sweetening agents. 26-Oct-1998 Associated British Foods is seeking clearance from the Office of Fair Trading for a possible bid for Spillers, the Dalgety-owned flour milling business. 18-Nov-1997 Associated British Foods has expressed an interest in acquiring Dalgety's ingredients and animal feeds businesses. 04-Nov-1997 Associated British Foods is acquiring a 70% stake in a sugar cane factory in south western China and a 41% stake in the Glinojeck beet factory in Poland. 28-Oct-1997 Associated British Foods is planning further expansion abroad, through start-ups and acquisitions, particularly in the Pacific region. 05-Nov-1996 Associated British Foods is forming a joint venture with the Sungai Budi Group to build a glucose and fructose syrup plant in Indonesia. 04-Apr-1996 Associated British Foods has stopped donating money to the Conservative party. 06-Dec-1995
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