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7 unusual facts about Confectionery


Alfhild Agrell

She was born to Erik Johan Martin and Karolina Margareta Adolphson, who worked as confectioners.

McCowan's

After this time the McCowans brand (separate from the McCowans company) transferred to firstly to The New McCowans Ltd then in October 2011 to Tangerine Confectionery.

Merita Breads

The company gave as their reason for this action that they had been crippled by a strike by BCTGM, the bakers' union.

Millar McCowan

In October 2011, the company went into administration the McCowans brand (separate from the McCowans company) transferred to firstly to Tangerine Confectionery at the same time, the Millar brand was transferred to Nisha Enterprises.

Morinaga Milk Industry

Their products include milk products, drinks, candy, confectioneries, and infant formula.

Muir v Glasgow Corporation

The children had all started to line up along the corridor to buy sweets at the tuck shop.

Nature's Pride

Nature's Pride is an all-natural brand of bread was produced by Hostess Brands and now produced by Flowers Foods in the United States, which closed its operations in the wake of a BCTGM bakers' union strike and entered liquidation proceedings.


Belém, Lisbon

This includes the famous pastry shop Fábrica de Pasteis de Belém known for a specific Portuguese confectionery: pastel de Belém (pl.: pastéis de Belém), an egg tart made with flaky pastry.

Belper School

Thorntons, the confectionery company once based in the town of Belper became major sponsors.

Catherine Cranston

The tea rooms are now owned by the Glasgow bakery HR Bradfords, who also own the UK intellectual property for the Miss Cranston name and who supply the cakes and confectionery to their tea rooms.

Darrell Lea

Darrell Lea has been in the ownership of the Lea family since it was founded by Harry Lea, who was born on 15 February 1876 in the East End of London, migrated to Australia in 1888, and started making confectionery in 1917 at the back of his Manly Corso fruit shop.

Delta DMD

In the sphere of foodstuffs Delta M operates as general importer and distributor of Ferrero confectionery in the territory of Serbia.

Dollar Sweets dispute

Dollar Sweets was a confectionery company in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern employing 27 people on a 38-hour week basis.

Eric Nicoli

While working in marketing for the confectionery company Rowntree's (previously owned by Rowntree Mackintosh), Nicoli spotted a gap in the market and filled it with two chocolate bars that have since become bestsellers: the Lion Bar and Yorkie

Fruit Tingles

Originally manufactured by Allen's in Melbourne since the 1930s, they were rebranded in the 1990s as Wonka Fruit Tingles as part of Nestlé's purchase of the Allen's brand in 1985, and more recently became branded as Life Savers Fruit Tingles in the Asia Pacific region in 2005.

Fudge

Word of this popular confectionery spread to other women's colleges.

Haribo

Haribo is one of the biggest manufacturers of gummy and jelly sweets in the world, with its products mainly consisting of gummy bears, other jelly sweets and liquorice.

Helen O'Clery

Her father joined her mother in the business and they established Urney Chocolates, which developed into one of the largest confectionery manufacturers in Europe.

Inland Waterways Protection Society

A confectionery factory had been built over the terminal basin, the section from Killamarsh to Spinkhill bridge was dry, and High Moor lock house had been demolished and the rubble pushed into the lock chamber.

James O. Welch Co.

Following the collapse of his own confectionery company, the Oxford Candy Company, during the United States Great Depression James O. Welch's brother, Robert W. Welch, Jr., co-founder of the John Birch Society, joined the James O. Welch Company.

K.C. Das Grandsons

is an Indian confectionery famous for its sweet, snacks and especially known for inventing the White spongy form of Rasgulla in Bengal.

Kandis

Rock candy, confectionery mineral composed of large sugar crystals

La Pie qui Chante

La Pie qui Chante (English: The Singing Magpie), is a French brand of confectionery, presently owned by Cadbury.

Laura Secord Chocolates

Laura Secord is a Canadian chocolatier, confectionery, and ice cream company that was founded in 1913 by Frank P. O'Connor.

Lewis Meeson Newsagent

Lewis Meeson was owned by Barker and Dobson plc, the UK confectionery manufacturer, whose brands included Victory V, Hacks cough sweets, Keiller butterscotch and the iconic Everton Mints.

Matchmakers

Matchmakers are an elongated chocolate confectionery product made by Nestlé.

Nougat

In some Francophone countries in the Middle East, Nougat has become a staple of the local confectionery offering.

Oblate spheroid

An everyday example of an oblate spheroid is the shape of confectionery such as Smarties or M&M's.

Oliver Sheldon

He was closely involved in restructuring the management and organization of the growing confectionery company at a stage where its growth meant by necessity it had to move away from the personal, family-centered management of its founder, Joseph Rowntree, towards a more professional culture.

Orange jelly candy

The candy is made at Smith's confectionery factory (史蜜夫糖果廠) at Kwun Tong.

Perfetti Van Melle

Perfetti Van Melle bills itself as the third largest confectionery manufacturer in the world after Kraft Foods (owners of Cadbury) and Mars, Incorporated (owners of Wrigley).

Pineapple Lumps

Charles Diver, the confectionery chef and floor production manager at Regina, who would later create other classic kiwi sweets, was given the task of using up waste product from other lollies of the time.

Sahar Hashemi

She is best known as co-founder of the coffee chain Coffee Republic and confectionery brand Skinny Candy.

Showbag

Common themes for showbags include confectionery brands, trademarked toys such as Barbie, The Simpsons, G.I. Joe and Batman, broad areas of children's play interest such as "cowboy" or "pirate", and sporting teams.

Sophie McShera

Their business, That Sweet Feeling, specialises in jars of romance-themed confectionery, especially popular on St. Valentine's Days.

Sprüngli

Confiserie Sprüngli, a Swiss luxury confectionery manufacturer known for its "Luxemburgerli" macaroons

Lindt & Sprüngli AG, more commonly known as Lindt, a Swiss chocolate and confectionery company

Stadtallendorf

The town is economically successful, as large factories such as Ferrero oHG mbH (confectionery), Fritz Winter GmbH & Co. KG (engine foundry), Hoppe AG (grip manufacturing), and others have chosen to build here.

Surendranagar city

Many SMEs & industry is also present, and is involved in such things as confectionery, ceramics, pharmaceuticals, engineering plastics and salt production.

Tiger Smith

Originally an employee with the Cadbury confectionery firm in Birmingham, he was first engaged by Warwickshire as a professional in 1904 but played only irregularly for over half a decade owing to the presence of Lilley behind the stumps.

Tongyang

Tongyang Confectionery Corp., now called Orion Confectionery, South Korean company formerly owned by the Tongyang Group

Villers-Écalles

The confectionery company Ferrero has a factory here, employing 800 people to produce Nutella and Kinder Bueno.

Vincent La Chapelle

To some degree, La Chapelle borrowed some of his recipes from his predecessor François Massialot, who composed a book on court cookery and confectionery in 1692.

Yablanitsa

The town is a noted confectionery production centre, particularly well known for the local halva and lokum (Turkish delight).


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