Yıldız Holding Yıldız Holding Yıldız Holding is a Turkish conglomerate that is best known for manufacturing food products. The company also produces other consumer goods and has its own retail, private equity and real estate operations. Yıldız Holding is among the largest food manufacturers in CEEMEA (Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa), generating revenues of 34.3 billion TL in 2016 across all businesses. The company employs 56,000 people and has 83 factories (24 of which are outside Turkey). Yıldız Holding has over 300 brands available in more than 130 countries. Through Yıldız Holding’s core focus on biscuits, cakes and
United Biscuits acquired William MacDonald & Sons for £2.8 million, and brought the Penguin brand to the group. In 1972, United Biscuits acquired "Carr's of Carlisle", makers of Table Water biscuits, from James Goldsmith's Cavenham Foods for £2.75 million. Two years later in 1974, United Biscuits acquired the US-based Keebler Company for $53 million. It also owned the Wimpy Bar fast food restaurant chain between 1977 and 1989. United Biscuits acquired the frozen food company Ross Young's from Hanson in 1988 for £335 million. United Biscuits sold Keebler for $500 million in 1995 after giving up efforts to break into the American