Five countries – the UK, Italy, Germany, France and Sweden – accounted for a combined 75% of its total sales in 2016.

Nomad Foods was founded on 1 April 2014 as an investment vehicle without operational business by Noam Gottesman and Martin E. Franklin.

On 20 April 2015, Nomad Holding announced it would acquire the Iglo Group (with its brands Iglo, Birds Eye and Findus in Italy), based in Feltham, England, from Permira for €2.6 billion.

[5][6] The acquisition meant Findus' operations in Italy owned by Iglo were reunited with those in the rest of continental Europe and Scandinavia under the same ownership.

[8] In January 2021, Nomad Foods went into exclusive talks with Fortenova Grupa over their frozen food business, which includes Ledo Plus from Croatia, Ledo Čitluk from Bosnia and Frikom from Serbia.