Heron Foods
Heron Foods on Holderness Road, Kingston upon Hull | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Food retail |
| Founded | 1979 Kingston upon Hull, England |
| Founder | Malcolm Heuck |
| Headquarters | , England |
Number of locations | 343 (2024) |
Area served | England Wales |
| Revenue | £194.7 million (2012) |
| £6.7 million (2012) | |
| £3.2 million (2012) | |
Number of employees | 4,915 (2020) |
| Parent | B&M |
| Website | www |
Heron Foods Ltd. (formerly Heron Frozen Foods Ltd and Grindells Butchers Ltd) is an English supermarket chain founded in 1979 and based in Melton with 343 stores as of 14 November 2024.
It primarily sells frozen food, but has a wide range of ambient and chilled stock with brands including Muller, Birds Eye and McCain Foods, as well as several lines using the Heron Foods brand.
B&M announced in August 2017 that it had purchased Heron Foods for £152 million, a deal that was described as a "no brainer" by B&M's CEO Simon Arora.