An MP has vowed to try and save Birmingham’s Hovis factory following the bombshell announcement it is to close, with the loss of 511 jobs. Premier Foods plans to shut the 50-year-old bakery and ...

Legendary bread brand Hovis is urging buyers to store bread in its original packaging. The company is working with UK Plastic Pact to reduce unnecessary waste of their bread bags. Their collaboration ...

Associated British Foods (ABF) is to acquire the Hovis bread business from UK headquartered private-equity firm Endless. ABF confirmed the deal today (15 August), ending months of speculation over the ...

The owners of Hovis and Kingsmill, two of Britain's leading bread producers, are in talks about a historic merger amid a decades-long decline in the sale of supermarket loaves. Sky News has learnt ...

The owners of Hovis and Kingsmill are closing in on a definitive agreement to merge two of Britain's most famous grocery brands following months of talks. Sky News has learnt that Associated British ...

LONDON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Associated British Foods (ABF.L), opens new tab has agreed to buy Hovis, giving it another big UK bread brand on top of Kingsmill so they can better compete in a market that ...

While there’s no arguing that the only worthy measure of how consumer product marketing works reflects sales and profitability, grain-based foods in America is well aware of outcomes that are ...

Around 200 workers at the Hovis factory in Wigan, Greater Manchester, have begun a series of three-week-long strikes against the introduction of agency workers on zero hour contracts. Members of the ...

A dispute over staff contracts and pay at Wigan's Hovis bakery has been resolved after two walkouts. Workers went on strike in August and earlier this month in protest over the introduction of agency ...