Editing Asda (section)

===Early years===
The Asquith family were [[butcher]]s based in [[Knottingley]], West Yorkshire. In the 1920s, they expanded their business to seven butchers shops in the area. Their sons, Peter and Fred, later became founding members of Asda.<ref name=asquith>{{cite news|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-asquith-1-2503706|title=Obituary: Peter Asquith|newspaper=Yorkshire Post|date=14 June 2008|access-date=2 May 2019|archive-date=2 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502180923/https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-asquith-1-2503706|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Around the same time, a group of [[West Riding]] dairy farmers, including the Stockdale family and Craven Dairies, joined under the banner of J. W. Hindell Dairy Farmers Ltd. The company diversified in 1949 to become Associated Dairies and Farm Stores Ltd, with Arthur Stockdale as the managing director.<ref name=noel>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1453806/Sir-Noel-Stockdale.html | url-access = subscription|title=Obituary: Sir Noel Stockdale|date=9 February 2004|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2 May 2019|archive-date=18 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018161122/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1453806/Sir-Noel-Stockdale.html|url-status=live}}</ref>