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| Product type | Food |
|---|---|
| Owner | Premier Foods |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Introduced | 1895 |
| Markets | UK and Australia |
| Previous owners | Unilever Best Foods |
| Website | www www |
Batchelors is a popular brand of predominantly dried food products. The Batchelors company was founded in 1895 in Sheffield, England by William Batchelor, initially specialising in canned vegetables. It released its first dried soup in 1949, and it started selling its convenience Cup-a-Soup range in 1972.[1] The company now makes pasta and rice dishes like Pasta 'n' Sauce and Super Rice along with instant soup, in particular Cup-a-Soup and noodle products such as Super Noodles. The company is the UK market leader in dried soups.[citation needed]
Since early 2008, the Batchelors name has also been applied to Premier Foods' condensed soup range, previously sold as Campbell's.[2] The Campbell's brand returned to the UK in 2011, after a five-year non-compete agreement expired.[3]
- ^ "Rise of foreign ownership for nostalgic food brands in our Cumbrian shopping trolleys". The Mail. Cumbria, UK. 18 January 2018.
- ^ Beckett, Alex (10 January 2011). "Campbell's soup returns but not as Andy knew it". The Grocer. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ "Campbell's soup returns to UK shelves for first time in three years". Mirror.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2017.