2003

December

• 23 Dec 2003
• Sale of Batchelors and Beck Smith
  Northern Foods plc has agreed to sell the share capital of Northern Foods (Ireland) Limited and its subsidiaries to Maiden Acquisition Company Limited.

November

• 11 Nov 2003
• Interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2003
  As we warned in our September trading update, performnace in the first half has been disappointing.

September

• 8 Sep 2003
• Sale of Fox's confectionery
  Northern Foods Grocery Group Limited, a subsidiary of Northern Foods plc, has sold the Fox’s Confectionery business in Leicester to Big Bear Limited

• 4 Sep 2003
• Board changes and trading update
  Northern Foods ("Northern") announces that Jo Stewart has today resigned from the position of Group Chief Executive and will be leaving the company.

July

• 17 Jul 2003
• AGM Statement
  At the Annual General Meeting held in Willerby near Hull today, the Chairman Peter Blackburn commented: "First quarter trading was in line with our expectations.

June

• 30 June 2003
• Acquisition of Solway Foods
  Northern Foods has acquired 100% control of its associate company, Solway Foods

May

• 28 May 2003
• Preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2003
  Sales in the first 7 weeks of the current year are up 7.6 per cent overall, and up 9.5 per cent with our five largest customers

January

• 15 Jan 2003
• Trading update to 31 December 2002
  Whilst Christmas seasonal trade was satisfactory and we achieved the expected improvement in factory efficiencies compared with 2001, overall sales growth in the third quarter to 31 December 2002 was lower than we had anticipated and below that achieved in the first half.