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United Biscuits ("UB") is a British multinational food manufacturer, makers of McVitie's biscuits, Jacob's Cream Crackers, and Twiglets. [1]

63 relations: Alain de Botton, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Belgium, BN Biscuit, Burton's Biscuit Company, Carr's, Cavenham Foods, Cheddars, Chief executive officer, Cream cracker, Dale Winton, Danone, Digestive biscuit, England, Food, France, FTSE 100 Index, Ginger snap, Hanson (company), Happy Faces, Hayes, Hillingdon, Headquarters, Hobnob biscuit, Huntley & Palmers, Intersnack, Jacob Fruitfield Food Group, Jacob's, Jacob's Club, Jaffa Cakes, James Goldsmith, Keebler Company, KP Snacks, Kraft Foods, London, London Stock Exchange, McVitie's, MidOcean Partners, Multinational corporation, Nabisco, Netherlands, PAI Partners, Peek Freans, Penguin (biscuit), Pladis, Pound sterling, Privately held company, Ross Group, Shortbread, Steve Allen (radio presenter), Taxi (chocolate), ..., The Blackstone Group, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Tunnock's, Twiglets, United Biscuits Network, United Kingdom, Verkade, Water biscuit, West London (sub-region), Wimpy (restaurant), Yıldız Holding, Young's Seafood. Expand index (13 more) »

Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton, FRSL (born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British philosopher and author.

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Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Ashby-de-la-Zouch, often shortened to Ashby, is a small market town and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England, within the National Forest.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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BN Biscuit

The BN Biscuit (or Biscuiterie Nantaise) is a French brand of biscuit, consisting of a filling, such as chocolate, sandwiched between two biscuits.

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Burton's Biscuit Company

Burton's Biscuit Company is a British biscuit manufacturer.

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Carr's

Carr's is the name of foodstuff and agricultural brands historically derived from founder Jonathan Dodgson Carr, but now owned and marketed by more than one separate company.

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Cavenham Foods

Cavenham Foods was one of the United Kingdom's largest food processing businesses.

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Cheddars

Cheddars are a brand of baked Cheddar cheese-flavoured British-style savoury biscuit, having a granular crumbly texture unlike crackers which are harder, more brittle and flaky in texture.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Cream cracker

A cream cracker is a flat, usually square savoury biscuit.

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Dale Winton

Dale Jonathan Winton (22 May 1955 – 18 April 2018) was an English radio DJ and television presenter.

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Danone

Danone is a French multinational food-products corporation based in Paris and founded in Barcelona, Spain.

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Digestive biscuit

A digestive biscuit, sometimes described as a sweet-meal biscuit, is a semi-sweet biscuit that originated in Scotland, and is popular worldwide.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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FTSE 100 Index

The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie", is a share index of the 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange with the highest market capitalisation.

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Ginger snap

A ginger snap, ginger nut, or ginger biscuit is a globally popular biscuit based snack food, flavoured with ginger.

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Hanson (company)

Hanson Limited, formerly Hanson Trust plc, is a British based international building materials company, headquartered in Maidenhead.

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Happy Faces

Happy Faces are a brand of biscuit made by United Biscuits' subsidiary Jacob's Bakery Ltd.

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Hayes, Hillingdon

Hayes is a town in West London, situated west of Charing Cross.

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Headquarters

Headquarters (commonly referred to as HQ or HD) is/are the locations where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated.

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Hobnob biscuit

Hobnobs is the brand name of a commercial biscuit.

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Huntley & Palmers

Huntley & Palmers is a British firm of biscuit makers originally based in Reading, Berkshire.

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Intersnack

Intersnack is a German snack food company that annually produces around 500,000 tonnes of snacks including potato chips, nuts, baked products and specialty snacks.

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Jacob Fruitfield Food Group

The Jacob Fruitfield Food Group is a company that once produced food products in Ireland, but is now mainly a brand for imported foods targeted at the Irish market.

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Jacob's

Jacob's is a brand name for several lines of biscuits and crackers in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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Jacob's Club

Club is a range of chocolate covered biscuits sold in Ireland under the Jacob's brand name and in the United Kingdom under McVitie's.

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Jaffa Cakes

Jaffa Cakes are biscuit-sized cakes introduced by McVitie and Price in the UK in 1927 and named after Jaffa oranges.

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James Goldsmith

Sir James Michael Goldsmith (26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997), a member of the prominent Jewish Goldsmith family, was an Anglo-French financier, tycoonBillionaire: The Life and Times of Sir James Goldsmith by Ivan Fallon and politician.

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Keebler Company

The Keebler Company is the second largest cookie and cracker manufacturer in the United States.

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KP Snacks

KP Snacks is a British producer of branded and own-label maize-, potato-, and nut-based snacks, "Choc Dips" and nuts.

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Kraft Foods

Kraft Foods Group, Inc. is an American grocery manufacturing and processing conglomerate headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Northfield, Illinois, part of the Kraft Heinz Company.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange located in the City of London, England.

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McVitie's

McVitie's is a British snack food brand owned by United Biscuits.

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MidOcean Partners

MidOcean Partners is an American private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and growth capital investments in middle-market companies.

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Multinational corporation

A multinational corporation (MNC) or worldwide enterprise is a corporate organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.

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Nabisco

Nabisco (from the National Biscuit Company) is an American manufacturer of cookies and snacks headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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PAI Partners

PAI Partners is a major European private equity house and is the leading private equity investor in the French market.

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Peek Freans

Peek Freans is the name of a former biscuit making company based in Bermondsey, London, which is now a global brand of biscuits and related confectionery owned by various food businesses.

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Penguin (biscuit)

Penguins are milk chocolate covered biscuit bars filled with chocolate cream.

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Pladis

Pladis is a global biscuit, chocolate and confectionery company owned by Yıldız Holding, the largest food company in the CEEMEA region.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Privately held company

A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.

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Ross Group

The Ross Group was a British food company founded in Grimsby, England in 1920.

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Shortbread

Shortbread is a Scottish biscuit traditionally made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three parts flour.

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Steve Allen (radio presenter)

Stephen Allen (born 17 March 1954) is an English radio presenter.

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Taxi (chocolate)

Taxi was the name of a chocolate biscuit sold under the McVitie's biscuit brand.

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The Blackstone Group

The Blackstone Group L.P. is an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services firm based in New York City.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Tunnock's

Thomas Tunnock Limited, commonly known as Tunnock's, is a family baker based in Uddingston, Scotland.

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Twiglets

Twiglets are a wheat-based snack with a "distinctive knobbly shape" similar to that of a small twig.

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United Biscuits Network

United Biscuits Network (or UBN for short) was an internal radio station serving the factories of United Biscuits.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Verkade

Royal Verkade (Dutch: Koninklijke Verkade) is a Dutch manufacturing company.

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Water biscuit

A water biscuit or water cracker is a type of biscuit or cracker.

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West London (sub-region)

West London is an official sub-region of Greater London; consisting of the London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames West London had a gross value added of £34.4bn in 2007, around 20% of the gross value added of Greater London.

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Wimpy (restaurant)

Wimpy is the brand name of a multinational chain of fast food restaurants, that is currently headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Yıldız Holding

Yıldız Holding is a Turkish conglomerate that is best known for manufacturing food products.

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Young's Seafood

Young's Seafood Ltd. is a British producer and distributor of frozen, fresh, and chilled seafood, supplying approximately 40% of all the fish eaten in the United Kingdom every year.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Biscuits

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