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Campbell Soup Premier Foods has agreed to acquire the UK and Irish operations of Campbell Soup for £460m, including brands such as Oxo, Batchelors, Homepride and Fray Bentos. 13-Jul-2006 Campbell Soup is considering plans to sell its operations in the UK and Ireland, including soups, noodles, meat products and stock cubes with annual sales of about £280m. 27-Mar-2006 Campbell Soup is planning to relocate 80 staff from King's Lynn and 30 from Crawley to a new commercial head office in Cambridge and a research centre in Worksop. 05-Sep-2001 Campbell Soup has completed the acquisition of the Oxo and Batchelors brands from Unilever, which involves the transfer of 525 staff in Worksop and 311 in Ashford. 08-May-2001 United Biscuits has acquired Biscuits Delacre, which operates in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, from Campbell Soup for £78m. 27-May-1998 United Biscuits is discussing the acquisition of Delacre, Campbell Soup's European biscuits business, in order to build up its operations in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. 29-Apr-1998 Dalgety may have to repay £300k of regional grants following the closure of its Cumbria Homepride sauce factory which it sold to Campbell Soup. 09-Nov-1995 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007