Palethorpes

Palethorpe's
Company typePrivate
IndustryMeat processing
Founded1850s
HeadquartersMarket Drayton, Shropshire, UK
Key people
Henry Palethorpe (founder)
ProductsSausages

Palethorpe's is a British producer of cooked meat and pastry products and was particularly well known for its branded sausages. Founded in 1852, it was bought by the Bibby Group in 1969 and then by Haverhill Meat Products (a J Sainsbury and Canada Packers joint venture) before becoming part of the Northern Foods Chilled Foods division in 1991. Palethorpes was then part of Pork Farms before being taken over by the Addo Food Group (now the Compleat Food Group since 2021) in turn owned by PAI Partners.