Findus Group
Food and Beverage ManufacturingLondon, United Kingdom5001-10000 Employees
The Findus Group is one of Europe’s largest frozen food and seafood companies with leading brands, 6000 employees and over £1.1 billion turnover. It is the parent company of Young’s and Findus. In the UK, Young's is the leading branded producer and distributor of seafood, with a 200 year old heritage of selling a wide range of high quality seafood products - both chilled and frozen - in retail and foodservice channels. Its market-leading products are staples of the British diet and include the Young’s Chip Shop range and Young's Admiral's Pie, the UK's best-selling ready meal. Findus is the leading branded frozen food manufacturer in the Nordic region, with market leadership in Sweden, Norway and Finland in each of the frozen ready meals, fish and vegetables segments in which it operates. Findus has a strong presence in France, where it has the strongest brand recognition of any frozen food brand. In the UK, the Findus brand was brought back under direct control of the Findus Group in April 2009. The Seafood Company is the UK's leading producer of chilled, private-label seafood products, selling to all of the major UK multiples. It is Europe's biggest processor of farmed Atlantic salmon. Findus Group was acquired by private equity firm Lion Capital in July 2008.