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
GBRSector
Consumer Defensive
Stock type
Defensive
Industry
Packaged Foods
Fiscal Year End
31 August 2025
Employees
138,000
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