Another name not on the list I just had to add is Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller or just plain Muller (don’t you just love the Germans). It employs 12000 UK people making yoghurt and milk drinks.
Some familiar names you might be missing are US owned:
• Cadbury, Terrys and TUC are part of Kraft Foods owned by Modelez International
• Johnson & Johnson, the baby oil people
• H J Heinz Co Ltd is owned by Kraft Heinz and employs 2500 people in the UK producing 57 (actually its 200) brands and HP sauce
• PepsiCo employs 5000 people in the UK producing Quaker oats, Tropicana, Doritos and Walkers Crisps
• Hains Celestial has 9 production sites in the UK making Hartleys jam amongst other things.
• Man Utd is owned by the Glazer family
• AB-InBev, responsible for Budweiser and Stella Artois, took over the UK Bass and Whitbread Breweries.
• Walmart own Asda
• Walgreen Boots Alliance took over the Swiss company Alliance that took over Boots and its 60,000 UK employees. ( fishy at its finest, and perhaps saddest )