WORLDWIDE DIVERSITY
The Liverpool, UK headquarters of Edward Billington & Son is the hub of a diversified international business. From the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius to the sophisticated, consumer-driven marketplaces of the United States, the company has established a reputation within its areas of business for quality, dependability and continuous improvement in product and service alike. In many areas it has gained industry or government accreditation for its impeccable production and process standards.  
 
Its corporate success has been built on a tradition of entrepreneurship – spotting and seizing business opportunities, sharing and gaining expertise through joint ventures and balancing a willingness to take risk in investment and innovation with broad and long-term financial prudence.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
The company’s history is rooted in the sugar business, which although sold in 2004 to British Sugar, still operates in the US with its “Billington’s” and Wholesome Sweeteners brands but which now also embraces a number of other specialist manufactured products for both the food industry and retail sector.
 
Almost as long-established as the food sector is the company’s agricultural business, which primarily provides dairy, beef and sheep feed but increasingly meets all the farmers needs from machinery, fertilisers, animal health products through to clothing and footwear via its venture Carrs Billington Agriculture Ltd. Criddle and Co Ltd, a wholly owned agricultural raw material supplier and trader, is increasingly successful and supplies CBAL as well as trading with other third parties. 
 
Each member of the main Edward Billington board is responsible for one or more of the companies in the group. Together, they provide a solid, professional support so that each company can maximise its potential within the marketplace, knowing that it has the financial and management support required to succeed.
 
Edward Billington and Son Ltd is a premier league company with a formidable scale and presence in the markets it serves.
 
THE FUTURE
Our long-term strategy continues to be to expand our business by responding to the opportunities and threats in our markets. We shall do this, as we always have done, in the context of the expertise within our group, our entrepreneurial spirit and thetwo-way commitment between the company and its employees.
 
We are not alone, these days, in regarding people as our most valuable resource. But our attitude is based on a tradition ofmore than 140 years during which we have sought always to recognise and reward commitment to our business. Secondly, we take as read that our customers will expect us to continue to provide the highest standards of product and service in all our activities. And we will.
 
Beyond this, amid the complex political, social, economic and technological factors at play in our markets, in times of great change, we intend the name of Edward Billington and Son Ltd to remain a byword for quality and enterprise.