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RNS Number : 1055B  Hilton Food Group PLC  29 September 2025

29(th) September 2025

Sale of Fairfax Meadow Europe Limited

Hilton Food Group plc ("Hilton Foods" or the "Group"), the leading
international multi-protein food business, is pleased to announce it has sold
the entire issued share capital of Fairfax Meadow Europe Limited ("Fairfax")
to Sysco GB Ltd, (part of the Sysco Group).

The Disposal will result in Hilton Foods receiving gross cash proceeds of
£54m and is expected to be earnings dilutive. The transaction includes a
three-year supply agreement with Hilton Food Solutions, ensuring continuity of
supply of the high-quality, internationally sourced meat products that Hilton
Food Solutions provides to Fairfax Meadow.

As previously announced, Hilton Foods has commenced a project to shape its
future strategy and define priorities. The sale of Fairfax Meadow is as a
result of the ongoing evaluation of the Group's activities and represents a
further step in aligning the business more closely with its core strengths.
Work on this project is progressing well, and a further update will be
provided in due course.

Steve Murrells, CEO of Hilton Foods, commented:

"Fairfax Meadow is a high-quality business, and we have supported its growth
and development since 2021. I want to thank all our colleagues at Fairfax for
their hard work and commitment and wish the entire team every success for the
future as the business continues to grow under new ownership.

"At Hilton Foods, our objective is clear, to build on the strengths that have
long defined our business. By refining our portfolio and focusing resources
where our global expertise and strong customer partnerships create the
greatest opportunities, we are reinforcing the platform for sustained growth
and delivering attractive long-term returns."

Commenting on the acquisition, Paul Nieduszynski, CEO of Sysco GB, said:

"We are delighted that Fairfax Meadow will be joining the Sysco family. We
have a strategic focus on providing the best centre of plate offer in
foodservice, and the acquisition of Fairfax Meadow is a crucial next step in
our plan to build leadership in the critical meat category.

"Fairfax Meadow is a great business with skilled and experienced colleagues
and a superb reputation for producing quality meat, combined with great levels
of service.

"We believe this is a complementary fit for Sysco GB, strengthening our fresh
meat proposition across the country and bringing even greater value to our
customers."

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For further information please contact:

 Hilton Food Group plc                             Tel: +44 (0) 1480 387214
 Steve Murrells, Chief Executive Officer

 Matt Osborne, Chief Financial Officer

 Hannah Surtees, IR & Communication Director

 Headland Consultancy                              Tel: +44 (0) 20 3805 4822
 Susanna Voyle                                     hiltonfood@headlandconsultancy.com (mailto:hiltonfood@headlandconsultancy.com)
 Will Smith
 Joanna Clark

 

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of
EU Regulation 596/204 (which forms part of domestic UK law pursuant to the
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018) and has been authorised for release by
Robin Miller Group General Counsel and Company Secretary.

 

About Hilton Foods

Hilton Foods is a leading international multi-category food producer, serving
customers and retail partners across the world with high quality meat,
seafood, vegan and vegetarian foods and meals. We are a business of over 7,200
employees, operating from 21 technologically advanced food processing, packing
and logistics facilities that serve over 19 markets in Europe, Asia Pacific
and North America. For over thirty years, our business has been built on
long-term partnerships with our customers and suppliers, many forged over
several decades, and together we target long-term, sustainable growth and
shared value. We supply our customers with high quality, traceable, and
assured food products, with high standards of technical excellence and
expertise manufactured in our well invested, highly automated facilities.

 

About Fairfax

Fairfax is the UK's leading meat supplier to the foodservice sector. It
operates across three meat processing and packaging facilities and serves some
of the leading businesses in UK hospitality and travel.  Fairfax was
established in the 1970's from a small group of local butchers in North London
and has grown to become the leading Catering Butcher in the UK. Fairfax Meadow
has been putting great meat on the menu for over 50 years and their unrivalled
heritage, scale and expertise allow them to provide great quality meat and
excellent service, consistently. Fairfax offer a national supply of a huge
range of meat products including their own Himalayan salt dry aged beef and
award-winning burgers and sausages.

 

About Sysco 

Sysco (https://www.sysco.com/) is the global leader in selling, marketing and
distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational
facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away
from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the
food service and hospitality industries. With more than 75,000 colleagues, the
company operates 339 distribution facilities worldwide and serves
approximately 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2025 that ended June
28 2025, the company generated sales of more than $81 billion. Information
about our Sustainability program, including Sysco's latest Sustainability and
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion reports, can be found at
www.sysco.com.  

 

Sysco in Great Britain 

As Britain's leading national broadline supplier, Brakes
(https://www.brake.co.uk/)  delivers the highest quality fresh and
frozen food and ingredients from its nationwide network of distribution
centres to some of the nation's most famous pubs and restaurants, as well as
schools, caterers, care homes and hospitals.  It has the biggest range of
award-winning products in foodservice. Medina Foodservice
(https://order.medinafoodservice.com/) and kff (https://www.kff.co.uk/)
 both offer a regional broadline service with a comprehensive range,
delivered with a passion for customer service and local knowledge. Sysco
fresh businesses in Great Britain are led by Fresh Direct
(https://www.freshdirect.co.uk/) , which is the leading specialist supplier
of locally and globally sourced fresh produce and dairy across Great
Britain, bringing the best of the seasons to chefs' menus, as well as the
finest sourced fresh fish and seafood from M&J Fresh Seafood
(https://www.mjseafood.com/) , as part of a consolidated delivery for many
corporate customers.  The very best ingredients for chefs are available from
fine food specialist Wild Harvest. (https://wildharvest.co.uk/)
  Campbell's Prime Meat (https://www.campbellsmeat.com/) is a premium,
specialist butchery with more than 100 years expertise in providing top
quality meat, fish and deli products to food businesses and consumers across
Scotland and the UK. It supplies nine of the 13 Michelin-starred restaurants
in Scotland. Brakes Catering Equipment (https://www.brakesce.co.uk/)
provides commercial catering equipment for a variety of catering
establishments and their services include a bespoke design
service.  Specialist convenience supplier, Country Choice
(https://www.countrychoice.co.uk/) , completes the group and is Britain's
leading supplier of in-store bakery and retail foodservice products. Sysco
has 8,800 colleagues servicing more than 20,000 customers from 30 distribution
centres across Great Britain. 

 

 

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