Profile: Premier Foods PLC (PFD.L)

Premier Foods plc is engaged in food manufacturing, processing and distribution operates in three segments: Grocery, Bread and Disposed of Canning Operations. The Grocery segment sells ambient food products. Its Grocery segment encompasses a variety of ambient grocery sectors including cakes, ambient desserts, Asian meal solutions, stocks, gravies, soups, spreads, home baking and pickles. The Bread segment sells bread, morning goods, flour products and frozen pizza bases. In October 2012, The Hain Celestial Group Inc acquired its portfolio of packaged grocery brands, including Hartley's, Sun-Pat, Gale's, Robertson's, and Frank Cooper's-with peanut butter, honey, jams, fruit and jelly, marmalade and chocolate product offerings-along with its Histon manufacturing base in Cambridgeshire. In February 2013, it sold its sweet pickles and table sauces business to Mizkan Group.