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=== Retail history === The brand Quorn was first marketed in 1985 by Marlow Foods (named after Rank Hovis McDougall's headquarters in [[Marlow, Buckinghamshire]]), a [[joint venture]] between RHM and [[Imperial Chemical Industries]] (ICI), which provided a fermenter left vacant from their abandoned single-cell feed programme.<ref>{{Cite news| url= https://londonist.com/london/history/did-you-know-that-quorn-was-invented-beside-the-thames|title=Did You Know That Quorn Was Invented Beside The Thames?|date=2018-05-28|work=[[Londonist]]|access-date= 2020-02-26|language=en-GB}}</ref> The two partners invested in patents for growing and processing the fungus, and other intellectual properties in the brand.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} The name of the product was taken from a trademark owned by RHM. This trademark was previously used for a range of instant food packets named after the [[Quorn Hunt]], which in turn derives from the Leicestershire village of [[Quorn, Leicestershire|Quorn]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wordhistories.net/2018/02/13/quorn-origin/|title=the curious history of 'Quorn' (meat substitute)|first=Pascal|last=Tréguer|website=Wordhistories.net|date=13 February 2018|access-date=10 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.quornmuseum.com/display.php?id=2011|title= Quorn meat substitute and our village – a connection or not?|website=Quorn Village Museum|access-date=10 January 2024}}</ref> Quorn entered distribution in the UK in 1993, and it was introduced to other parts of Europe in the 1990s, and to North America in 2002.<ref>{{cite web | title = What is Quorn? | website = quorn.us | publisher = Quorn USA | url = http://www.quorn.us//cmpage.aspx?pageid=372 | access-date = 4 June 2007 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070701185900/http://www.quorn.us/cmpage.aspx?pageid=372 | archive-date = 1 July 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>
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