Farmfoods is a privately owned company, and the controlling owner is Scottish businessman Eric Herd , whose family has run the business since it began in the 1950s.

Who owns Farmfoods?

  • Farmfoods Limited is a private, family-owned supermarket chain based in Cumbernauld, Scotland.
  • The company is owned and controlled by Eric Herd , who is described as the owner or majority owner in multiple corporate and reference sources.
  • Herd inherited the business from his father, who started it as a meat-processing firm in Aberdeen in the 1950s, and other members of the Herd family also hold shares.

Quick Scoop: extra context

  • Farmfoods has grown from its Aberdeen origins into a UK-wide frozen food and grocery chain with over 300 stores, more than 100 of which are in Scotland.
  • It remains privately held rather than listed on the stock market, so there is no public shareholder base beyond the Herd family’s ownership.

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