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Associated British Foods is a balanced diversified businessAssociated British Foods is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of ?5.6 billion and over 42,000 employees in 41 countries
The group is one of Europe's largest food companies with a wide range of successful brands and products in the food sector, and an increasingly strong presence in advanced research and technology. A significant supplier of branded and non-branded grocery products and a leading textile retailer, we have significant businesses in Europe, Australasia and the United States.
Associated British Foods is a balanced diversified business operating in most of the world's main food markets. Their business straddles primary foods like flour and sugar, animal feeds, and the higher technology, high growth sector of ingredients and oils. The business embraces leading grocery brands and a powerful retail textiles arm, where they have successfully built a name in the UK and Ireland for providing quality merchandise at affordable prices.
Their aim is to concentrate their energies and their expertise on segments of the market where they can establish a leading position. They have disposed of businesses that do not fit this strategic focus and they are actively pursuing acquisitions that will deliver the sort of market presence they seek. As a group they are also constantly searching for better, more efficient and more profitable ways to manufacture foods and ways to transfer their technology to other related sectors. Their watchwords are efficiency, quality, shareholder value and growth.
Associated British Foods is a global food and ingredients company. They are one of Europe's largest food groups, with sales and manufacturing operations across Europe, Australasia, Latin America and the United States. They employ 21,000 in the European Union, mainly UK and Ireland, 6,500 in Australasia and some 2,000 in the United States. Total number of employees is approximately 42,000.
Advanced research and technology is a key driver for their business, and they invest in it heavily. They run a number of group-wide research facilities like the Allied Technical Centre and the Central Laboratories in the UK. But their subsidiary companies often maintain their own research facilities to carry out dedicated research for the local market, the group and the wider industry. These include facilities at ACH Foods in the US, at Weston Technologies in Australia and AB Enzymes in Germany and Finland.
Associated British Foods have pushed through a far-reaching programme of efficiency improvements in their plants in recent years. An important part of their drive for increased efficiency is targeted on improving the environmental performance of their facilities. Wherever their operations are sited, their aim as a minimum to meet all relevant legislation, cut emissions, reduce energy and raw material consumption, cut waste and recycle where possible, reduce packaging, use transport efficiently and operate effective health and safety regimes.
Another kind of association is the British Meat Education Service (BMES). It is a website for food technology teachers and students and is packed with free interactive programmes, downloadable materials and an online catalogue of other free video and print resources for food teachers.
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