Greencore eyeing 'quite a bit' of UK acquisition activity

Greencore boss Patrick Coveney expects the sandwich-making group to undertake "quite a bit" of acquisition activity in the UK market over the next three to five years.

However, he said the convenience food group won't be targeting large-scale big-ticket takeovers; in the vein of its 2011 purchase of rival Uniq, which catapulted Greencore's status in the UK, or its more recent short-lived purchase of Peacock Foods in the US.