McVitie’s and Jacob’s owner United Biscuits agreed today to a £1.6bn (€2.4bn) takeover by a consortium made up of two private equity firms.

McVitie’s and Jacob’s owner United Biscuits agreed today to a £1.6bn (€2.4bn) takeover by two private equity firms.

TAYTO GROUP, the Northern Ireland-based snack foods business has formally acquired the British-based Golden Wonder snack group.

Two of the brands rescued from crisp maker Golden Wonder were sold on to the owner of Hula Hoops and KP nuts today.

A family-owned crisp maker from Northern Ireland today emerged as the potential saviour of collapsed rival Golden Wonder.

Three firms were bidding today for all or part of Golden Wonder after interest in the collapsed crisp maker was whittled down from 60 parties.

A DIVISION of collapsed crisp maker Golden Wonder was snapped up by Tayto Northern Ireland Limited, safeguarding 195 jobs.

Building company Grafton saw share values dip 4c to €9.31 in morning trade today, after the firm announced in a trading statement that group turnover for 2005 exceeded €2.6bn.

Crisp firm Tayto today snapped up a division of collapsed crisp maker Golden Wonder, safeguarding almost 200 jobs.

UK crisp maker Golden Wonder went into administration today putting 850 jobs at risk.

Crisps and snacks group Golden Wonder is to be sold to the owners of rival crispmaker The Snack Factory, it was announced today.