Grampian Country Foods was a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

-based meat processing company, now part of the UK division of Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

-cooperative

Cooperative

A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

, Vion NV

Vion NV

Vion Food Group are a Netherlands-based meat processing and food production company, headquartered in Eindhoven, that produces ingredients and foodstuffs and ingredients for people and animals...

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Established in 1980 by a Scottish farming family, Grampian expanded quickly through pan-UK acquisition. Moving its headquarters to Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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 and then Leeds

Leeds

Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

, it became the UK's biggest pig meat processor. Its food production unit produced own-brand products mainly for the UK's largest supermarket

Supermarket

A supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments...

 chains. Faced with financial difficulties from the late 1990s, it was sold to Vion in January 2008.

Today, fully integrated into the VION's UK business, the business employs 14,000 people. The former Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

business is now controlled from the Netherlands.