Greencore: agrees to sell Cakes and Desserts Business

Dublin / IE. (gg) Greencore Group PLC, the leading international convenience food business, announces that it has reached an agreement to sell its cakes and desserts business in Hull to Bright Blue Foods Limited, one of the United Kingdom’s leading ambient cake manufacturers. This sale, together with the announced closure of the desserts facility in Evercreech, marks Greencore’s exit from the UK cakes and desserts sector, the Group announced in a very short statement.

Greencore is a leading international producer of convenience foods with extensive operations in the UK and the US. Headquartered in Dublin, it employs approximately 16’000 people in 31 manufacturing facilities across the UK and the US. On average, it manufactures around 1.5 billion sandwiches, over 600 million salad and lunch kits, and 140 million ready meals every year.