Farmfoods Limited

A Farmfoods store on Tritton Road, Lincoln, England
Company type	Private limited company
Industry	Retail
Founded	1954; 70 years ago (1954) in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Headquarters	Cumbernauld, Scotland, UK
Number of locations	335+ (2023)
Key people	George Herd (CEO)
Products	Frozen foods Groceries
Revenue	£941.6 million (2021)[1]
Operating income	£20.5 million (2021)[1]
Net income	£14.6 million (2021)[1]
Website	www.farmfoods.co.uk

Farmfoods is a British frozen food and grocery supermarket chain based in Cumbernauld, Scotland.^[2] It is owned by Eric Herd, and has over three hundred shops in the United Kingdom, of which more than a hundred are in Scotland.^[3][4]

Farmfoods primarily focuses on frozen foods, however they also stock a range of grocery, fresh produce, chilled, household, electrical and beauty products.

History

The company started in 1954 as a meat-processing business. A shop was opened in Aberdeen in the 1970s,^[3] and by the mid-1980s the company had about twenty.^[5]

In the 1990s, it bought Capital Freezer Centres and Wallis Frozen Foods.^[5] In 2005 it had annual sales of just over £400 million, the highest of any private mid-market firm in Scotland in that year, and fourth-highest in the United Kingdom.^[5]

In 2011, Farmfoods and Asda made an unsuccessful bid for Iceland; Farmfoods would have acquired two hundred of the eight hundred stores.^[6]

In recent years Farmfoods have been opening larger stores and closing smaller ones as they enlarge their non food range. They have also taken over numerous old Aldi and Lidl supermarket sites.

In 2023, Farmfoods began revamping some of their stores with a new interior design.

The company is headquartered in Cumbernauld with some head office functions operating out of Birmingham and Solihull.