, London In the 1920s, the Liebig's Extract of Meat Company acquired the
Oxo Tower Wharf on the south bank of the river
Thames in
London. There they erected a factory, demolishing most of the original building and preserving and building upon the riverside frontage. The Liebig Extract of Meat Company was acquired by the
Vestey Group in 1924 and the factory was renamed
Frigorífico Anglo del Uruguay, also known as El Anglo. The company's assets included over 2-3 million hectares of farm land and herds of cattle in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay,
Southern Rhodesia, Kenya and South Africa. Liebig merged with
Brooke Bond in 1968, which was in turn acquired by
Unilever in 1984;
Campbell Soup Company acquired Liebig, Oxo, and several European brands from Unilever in 2001, Campbell later sold the UK operation to
Premier Foods in 2006. The rest of Campbell European soup business was sold to
CVC Capital Partners and became Continental Foods in 2013. Continental Foods was later acquired by Spanish food company GBFoods in 2019. Liebig division in France was separated from Brooke Bond Liebig in 1983 and merged with
Maille as SEGMA Liebig Maille which was owned by
Danone. Danone later broke up SEGMA and sold Liebig France to Campbell Soup Company in 1997. In the meantime,
Oxoid had moved to its own facilities in
Basingstoke. Oxoid was purchased by Unilever and joined their Medical Products group as
Unipath. In 1997, Oxoid became independent through
management buy-out and in 2000, PPMVentures, a subsidiary of Prudential Plc, bought a majority stake. In 2004, Oxoid Ltd was purchased by
Fisher Scientific with the Oxoid board of directors sharing £30 million in cash and company shares. Following the merger of Fisher Scientific with Thermo Electron Corporation in November 2006, Oxoid Ltd (along with Remel Inc) became the Microbiology Division of
Thermo Fisher Scientific. ==
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