Heron Foods
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| Private limited with share capital | |
| Industry | Food retail |
| Founded | Hull, United Kingdom (1979)[1] |
| Founder | Malcolm Heuck |
| Headquarters | Melton, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Michael Heuck (CEO) |
| Revenue |  £194.7 million (2012)[2] |
 £6.7 million (2012)[2] |
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| £3.2 million (2012)[2] |
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| Owner | Heron Food Group Limited (Heuck family and management) |
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Number of employees
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2,438 (2012)[2] |
| Website | www |
Heron Foods Ltd. (formerly Heron Frozen Foods Ltd and Grindells Butchers Ltd) is an English retail chain founded in 1979 and based in Melton with 243 stores.
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The company's head office is at Melton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, previously at Walcott Street, Hull, and it has 243 outlets located throughout the North of England and the Midlands.[1][3]
Heron Foods has successfully developed its business in selling frozen and convenience store goods at a discount, the majority of which are household brands.[4] Heron occupy eight former Woolworth's locations.[5]
History
The company was first registered in October 1978 as Grindells Butchers.[6] The first store was opened by the Heuck family on Holderness Road, Hull in 1979.[7] In 1981 the company changed name to Heron Frozen Foods.[6] In 1999 Heron bought 17 Dawn Til Dusk convenience stores after that chain went into receivership, bringing its total number of stores to over 100.[8] Malcolm and Sheila Heuck had a joint controlling interest in the company from the beginning, but in February 2003, having reached retirement age, they sold their stake to management.[7] The company is now run by their sons Andrew, David and Michael.[9] The company was ranked 13th in a list of the top 50 independent grocers on 27 February 2010 in The Grocer magazine.
In September 2012 Heron Foods agreed to buy the Cooltrader frozen foods business from Iceland. The deal included 54 of the 58 shops and the depot and head office of Cooltrader.[10] The Cooltrader outlets will be converted to the Heron Foods fascia and branding.[11]
References
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| "Big four" | |
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| Convenience | |
| Discount | |
| Frozen specialists |
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| Online | |
| Premium |
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- ↑ Nottingham Evening Post 21 August 2012 Tuesday Edition 1; National Edition Innes England in hunt for stores for growing chain of supermarkets SECTION: BUSINESS POST;BUSINESS; p. 15
- ↑ The Daily Telegraph (London) 19 January 2012 Thursday Edition 2; National Edition Pound legacy of Woolworths sites BYLINE: Harry Wallop SECTION: BUSINESS; p. 3
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Companies House Information on Company 01392197
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 About Heron Foods
- ↑ Independent Retail News 2 July 1999 COSTCUTTER LINKED WITH DAWN TIL DUSK STORES BYLINE: Daniel Pearce SECTION: NEWS; p. 10
- ↑ News & Star | New frozen food shop to open
- ↑ Iceland agrees Cooltrader sale to Heron Foods
- ↑ Retail Week 3 September 2012 Monday Iceland appoints Paul Foley as international business director
