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Who are Kettleby Foods?

Kettleby Foods is a part of the Samworth Brothers Group. You may not have heard of Kettleby Foods but your have probably eaten one of their products! Kettleby Foods manufacture ready meals such as Cottage Pie, Lancashire Hotpot, Beef Stew and Dumplings and others. The market for ready meals is around £1.35 billion and growing. Ready meals as a part of the food market has grown in recent years as people seek to adjust to the demands of busy lifestyles. With many families having both parents working the availability of well-prepared and tasty ready meals fills an important sector of the market.

Samworth Brothers is a private limited company. The ownership of the company is in the hands of the Samworth family and was founded by John Samworth, the President, and David Samworth. The company structure is designed in such a way to help maintain stability and continuity of ownership in the hands of the family and to protect the identity of the company.

The full legal title of the business is Samworth Brothers Limited and consists of 13 divisions, each of which is an autonomous business in its own right and managed by a separate board of management team. Each business operates as, e.g. Kettleby Foods a division of Samworth Brothers Limited. The business, therefore, is structured as outlined in the diagram below:

This business profile will focus on one of these business areas, Kettleby Foods.

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