Northern Foods
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Food |
| Founded | 1937 as Northern Dairies |
| Headquarters | Wakefield, England |
Key people | Ranjit Singh Boparan |
| Revenue | £975.2 million (2009) |
| £52.7 million (2009) | |
| £2.5 million (2009) | |
Number of employees | 9,890 (2009) |
| Parent | Boparan Holdings |
| Subsidiaries | Gunstones bakery, Solway Foods, Fox's Biscuits, Green Isle Foods, Hollands Pies, Pennine Foods, Matthew Walker |
Northern Foods is a British food manufacturer headquartered in Wakefield, England. It was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the original FTSE 100 Index. The company is credited, together with Marks & Spencer, with creating the UK Chilled Food category. The driver of this growth was Christopher Haskins, the son-in-law of the company's founder Alec Horsley. Haskins became a director in 1967, deputy chairman in 1974, and was chairman from 1980 to 2002. The company was delisted in 2011 when it was bought by the 2 Sisters company.