Associated British Foods PLC

Company Profile

• Business description

  Associated British Foods is a diversified international food, ingredients, and retail group with 138,000 employees and operations in 56 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. The group sells branded groceries, grows and processes sugar, supplies farmers with crop input and animal feed, and runs the multinational Primark clothing retail chain. It also supplies ingredients like bakers' yeast, enzymes, lipids, and cereal specialties. In fiscal 2025, approximately 36% of sales came from the UK, and Primark accounted for around 60% of operating profit.On April 21, 2026, ABF announced it plans to separate Primark and the food businesses. Subject to approvals, the demerger is expected to become effective at the end of 2027.

• Contact

  10 Grosvenor Street
  Weston Centre
  LondonW1K 4QY
  GBR

  T: +44 2073996500

  E: [email protected]

  https://www.abf.co.uk

• Sector

  Consumer Defensive

  Stock type

  Defensive

• Industry

  Packaged Foods

  Fiscal Year End

  31 August 2027

  Employees

  138,000