Completion of Joint Venture

RNS Number : 6764F

Premier Foods plc

28 April 2014

 



28 April 2014

Premier Foods plc

("Premier Foods")

PREMIER FOODS COMPLETES JOINT VENTURE TRANSACTION IN RELATION TO ITS BREAD BUSINESS

Further to its announcement on 27 January 2014, Premier Foods is pleased to confirm that it has completed the joint venture transaction with The Gores Group in relation to Premier Foods' bread business¹.  The joint venture will trade under the name of Hovis Limited.

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Enquiries

Premier Foods plc	[phone]
Richard Johnson, Group Corporate Affairs Director
Richard Godden, Head of Investor Relations
Maitland	[phone]
Liz Morley
Tom Eckersley

Notes to editors

1.         The Bread business excludes the Charnwood Foods facility in Leicester and a flour mill in Andover.

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