{"id":25369,"date":"2018-01-18T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=25369"},"modified":"2018-01-18T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:19:15","slug":"2-sisters-food-group-sell-pizza-brands-200m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/18\/2-sisters-food-group-sell-pizza-brands-200m\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Sisters Food Group sell Pizza Brands for \u00a3200m"},"content":{"rendered":"

Entrepreneur Ranjit Boparan of 2 Sisters Food Group, Birmingham has sold pizza brands Goodfella’s and San Marco to the owner of Birds Eye for \u00a3200 million.<\/p>\n

2 Sisters Food Group has offloaded the frozen pizza part of Green Isle Foods, one of Ireland’s largest frozen food producers, to Nomad Foods which also owns Findus.<\/p>\n

This deal also includes the supply of private label frozen pizza contracts to UK and Irish retailers.<\/p>\n

The other brands owned by Green Isle Foods such as Donegal Catch frozen fish and Galway Pies and Pastry are staying with the 2 Sister group.<\/p>\n

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Mr Boparan said: “We are pleased to announce this transaction of our frozen pizza businesses.<\/p>\n

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“We have had approaches over the past couple of years for these businesses and we have been talking to several interested parties during this period.<\/p>\n

“But a sale had to be at the right time, with the right buyer, and it had to be a deal that fitted with our long-term strategy.<\/p>\n

“This deal represents our first major step to transform 2 Sisters and build a better business.<\/p>\n

“Nomad Foods is a fabulous new home and this deal will enable the business to continue to flourish with\u00a0owners who are experts in the frozen category.<\/p>\n

2 Sisters Food Group\u2019s main work is supply of poultry products to supermarkets and also owns Fox’s biscuits, Christmas pudding maker Matthew Walker and fish and chip restaurant group Harry Ramsden.<\/p>\n

Mr Boparan in 2016, bought both the Giraffe restaurant group from supermarket chain Tesco and turkey producer Bernard Matthews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entrepreneur Ranjit Boparan of 2 Sisters Food Group, Birmingham has sold pizza brands Goodfella’s and San Marco to the owner of Birds Eye for \u00a3200 million. 2 Sisters Food Group has offloaded the frozen pizza part of Green Isle Foods, one of Ireland’s largest frozen food producers, to Nomad Foods which also owns Findus. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":25371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,53,3,112],"tags":[671,672,673],"class_list":["post-25369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-food","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-2-sisters-food-group","tag-goodfellas","tag-san-marco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}