Associated British Foods PLC

AFO1

Company Profile

  • Business description

    Associated British Foods is a diversified international retail, food, and ingredients group with 130,000 employees and operations in 50 countries across Europe, southern Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. The group sells branded grocery products, grows and processes sugar, supplies farmers with crop input and animal feed, and runs the popular Primark clothing retail chain. It also supplies ingredients like baker's yeast, enzymes, lipids, and cereal specialities. Some 40% of sales are in the UK. Primark generates more than half of the firm's operating profit.

  • Contact

    10 Grosvenor Street
    Weston Centre
    LondonW1K 4QY
    GBR

    E: [email protected]

    https://www.abf.co.uk

  • Sector

    Consumer Defensive

    Stock type

    Defensive

  • Industry

    Packaged Foods

    Fiscal Year End

    31 August 2026

    Employees

    138,000

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