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Tayto buys UK vending machine business

(UDHAYAM, UK) – Tandragee-based crisp maker Tayto has bought a Leeds-based vending machine business in a multi-million pound deal.

Freedom Refreshments is a UK-wide group that employs 160 people. It turned over £16m in 2016.

It is Tayto’s third acquisition in England this year after it bought a snack company and a majority stake in a popcorn business.

The company said the deal allowed Tayto to “increase our presence significantly within this sector”.

“While we have a strong share of the vending market in Northern Ireland, we only had limited reach into GB,” said Paul Allen, the group’s chief executive.

Tayto has established a new company, Montagu Group, to hold the vending machine business.

Meanwhile the Tayto Group’s annual results for 2016 showed a pre-tax profit of £2.9m on turnover of £163m.

The group employed 1,400 people during the year paying salaries worth £29m.

The best-paid director received renumeration of just under £900,000.

The Tayto Group has been owned by the Hutchinson family since 1956 and is the third-largest snack manufacturer in the UK.

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