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Premier Foods is planning to acquire RHM for £1.2bn, in order to create the country's largest food production group with 40 factories and 18,000 staff. 05-Dec-2006 RHM is planning to close its Supreme Salt factory in Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent, in September, with the loss of up to 57 jobs, in order to transfer the work to sites in Middlewich and Reading. 16-May-2006 RHM, the food manufacturing group valued at up to £1.3bn, has confirmed plans for a flotation next month. 20-Jun-2005 RHM is planning a multi-million pound investment at its flour milling sites in Manchester, Selby, Southampton and Gainsborough, but its Hull mill will close in 2006 with the loss of up to 41 jobs. 02-May-2005 RHM is in negotiations with two companies for the sale of its Golden West division, which supplies buns, ketchup and soft drink syrups to McDonald's. 30-Mar-2005 RHM, the food group with 20,000 staff at 69 manufacturing sites, is preparing plans for a £1bn flotation later this year. 30-Jun-2004 RHM is investing several million pounds in a new pizza bases factory for its Charnwood Foods division in Wigston, Leicestershire. 03-Feb-2004 RHM is to invest £23m at the Avana Bakeries site in Newport, securing the future of 675 jobs, but the company's Cardiff site will close and 230 staff will be offered employment in Newport. 18-Dec-2003 RHM has sold the Three Cooks chain of 250 bakery outlets to Cooks for undisclosed terms. 12-Nov-2003 RHM has sold Pasta Foods, the Yarmouth-based pasta manufacturer with 130 staff, to management for undisclosed terms. 11-Nov-2003 RHM has sold Haydens Bakeries of Devizes to the Real Good Food Company for undisclosed terms. 07-Jul-2003
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