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Laverbread (/ ˈ l eɪ v ər-, ˈ l ɑː v ər-/; Welsh: bara lafwr or bara lawr; Irish: sleabhac) is a food product made from laver, an edible seaweed (littoral alga) consumed mainly in Wales as part of local traditional cuisine.
J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, [a] is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom.. Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company was the largest UK retailer of groceries for most of the 20th century.
Welsh laverbread: PDO (UK, EU) 2017 Traditional product made from laver (seaweed: porphyra umbilicalis), plucked from the Wales coastline and cooked with exclusively with salt and water. [82] Worcestershire cider PGI (UK, EU) 1996 Limited to products produced in Worcestershire, using locally grown varieties of cider apples.
Porphyra is a genus of coldwater seaweeds that grow in cold, shallow seawater.More specifically, it belongs to red algae phylum of laver species (from which comes laverbread), comprising approximately 70 species. [2]
The equity interest in Sainsbury's held by the family as of May 2011 is 15%. The family sold down their stake from 35% in 2005. The largest family shareholders are Lord Sainsbury of Turville with 4.99% and Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, who controls just under 3% of the company, and benefits from 1.6% of the equity included in the above.
Sir Peter John Davis (born 23 December 1941) is a British businessman, who was, from 2000 to 2004, the CEO of J Sainsbury plc, which operates the UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's. Davis was born in Cheshire [1] on 23 December 1941, the son of John Stephen Davis and Adriaantje de Baat. [2] He was educated at Shrewsbury School. [2]
There are still some small producers of Gower laverbread, but larger quantities are sourced from the west coast of Scotland. [13] A Gower breakfast can comprise griddled bacon with cockles, laverbread and baked eggs. [14] Laverbread and cockles on sale at Swansea Market. Crabbing (which also collectively includes lobstering) was a traditional ...
Alan Sainsbury was instrumental in bringing the self-service supermarket to Britain and shaping many of the conditions by which we shop for food today. On a trip to America he saw the experience of self-service supermarkets, and John James Sainsbury's show-piece Croydon branch of Sainsbury's was converted to self-service in 1950.