Uniq plc

Uniq (until 1999 Unigate ) was a formerly publicly traded British food company specializing in the manufacture and distribution of refrigerated and frozen foods, especially salads, desserts, sandwiches, wraps, dips, sauces, dressings and ready meals. The Uniq Group was formed in 1959 from the merger of United Dairies and Cow & Gate to Unigate. Uniq was one of the major suppliers of European supermarket chains (including Cadbury and Marks & Spencer ) and produced under its own brands and private labels. Headquarters of the company was Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, near London.

Sales of Uniq in 2007 was £ 736 million, of which £ 345 million in the United Kingdom, Northern Europe ( Germany, Netherlands, Poland ) 209 million pounds and 182 million pounds in France. Uniq in mid- 2009 19 production sites, in the UK 7, on the continent 12 due to economic difficulties Uniq had 2000 sell the Dairy Products Division at Dairy Crest, 2001 its logistics business Wincanton and 2009 other important subsidiaries sell ( including in March, the frozen fish sector in mid- the year the business in France and the end of the German -Polish Nadler delicatessen group) and retreat to the British Isles. 2011 Uniq was sold to the Irish Greencore Group and commissioned by the Exchange.

Former subsidiaries

• UK: Uniq plc in Gerrards Cross ( lead company ), Uniq Prepared Foods ( sales subsidiary ) in Northampton, Evercreech truly Uniq in Evercreech at Shepton Mallet ( Somerset ), Riviera Desserts in Paignton, Smedley Salads in Spalding ( Lincolnshire ), St. Ivel in Minsterley in Shrewsbury ( Shropshire )
• Netherlands: Johma in Losser. Johma provides salads, V.A. Potato salads ago; 2010, together with Uniq Sandwiches sold to guild equity and integrated this into the Salad Signature Group
• Germany, Poland: Nadler delicatessen. To Nadler Group owns the brands Nadler in Bottrop, Türk & Pabst in Bottrop, Thuringian Fischfeinkost brothers Hopf in flea Seligenthal, penny delicatessen in Sarstedt, as well as Lisner in Poznań / Poland; The Nadler Group was sold in November 2009 to the German Kamps group ( bakery and deli ) and integrated into the already belonging to Kamps Homann group
• France: Marie. For Marie- group at the famous market halls in the Paris suburb of Rungis include addition to its headquarters subgroups Marie Frais Briec, Sablé- sur -Sarthe and Viriat and Marie Surgelés in Airvault, Mirebeau and Chacé; the group was sold in October 2009 to the French Groupe LDC ( Lambert- Dodart - Chancereul )