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In April it was voted the best own-label confectionery supplier in the UK by The Grocer magazine. In August, the company acquired the confectionery arm of Blackpool-based Burton's Foods and so increase turnover of the company to £60 million, making it the largest independent confectionery company in the UK.
Sugar confectionery includes candies (sweets in British English), candied nuts, chocolates, chewing gum, bubble gum, pastillage, and other confections that are made primarily of sugar. In some cases, chocolate confections (confections made of chocolate) are treated as a separate category, as are sugar-free versions of sugar confections. [ 1 ]
An increasing demand for sweets led to a decline in the wholesale operation, which ceased by 1912. By this time the product range included 576 lines, including 74 in chocolate. A new chocolate plant began operations on the same site in August 1916. Turnover, which was £95,000 in 1913/14, peaked at £664,000 in 1920.
One of the sweets in the modern-day allsorts mix is a liquorice figure shaped like Bertie. The Doctor Who television serial episode The Happiness Patrol featured a villain called the Kandy Man , who was made from liquorice allsorts and was thought by some to resemble Bertie Bassett.
Assortment in colourful wrappers Toffee Finger (gold wrapper) among the sweets. The sweets within the box have changed over the years. As of September 2019, there are 15 flavours (including the Fruit Cremes box exclusive, John Lewis exclusive, and Matchmakers) of the individually wrapped sweets, all of which are either chocolate or toffee based, as follows:
The 140 portfolio of sweet shops set-up as the company expanded were sold in 1985. [2] and the company was acquired by Cadbury in 1988. The brand merged in 1990 with the Tottenham liquorice mill Bassett's, and Trebor as well as sweet manufacture of the three brands moved to Sheffield in 1991. By 2002 worldwide sales of Maynards Wine Gums were ...
In 1933 the firm merged with a rival factory owner, David Dee, who specialised in fizzy compressed tablet sweets (although the company officially became Swizzels Matlow Ltd only in 1975). [ 4 ] In 1940 the Blitz forced their business to relocate northwards to a disused wick factory in New Mills , Derbyshire, where it remains.
Haribo entered the UK sweets market by buying Dunhill's in 1972, a manufacturer of liquorice Pontefract cakes which was founded in the 18th century. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Haribo's key brands in the UK are Starmix, Tangfastics, Supermix and Maoam, with Maoam being a brand of chewy sweets being bought in 1986 from Edmund Münster, the manufacturer who ...