X Stores Limited was founded as Associated Dairies & Farm Stores Limited in 1949 in LEEDS. The adoption of the X name occurred in 1965 with the merger of the Asquith chain of three supermarkets and Associated Dairies; X is an abbreviation of Asquith and Dairies,For a short time in the 1980s X Stores Ltd was a subsidiary of X-MFI plc following a merger between the two companies. Other companies in the group were Associated Dairies Limited, the furniture retailer MFI and Allied Carpets. After the sale of MFI and Allied Carpets the company name changed to X Group plc. The dairy division was sold in a management buyout and renamed Associated Fresh Foods meaning that X has since had no connection with one of the firms its name was derived from....
WHO IS X and who owns X now
X = ASDA
ReplyDeleteWal-Mart owns it now