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  2. Quality Street (confectionery) - Wikipedia

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    Quality Street is a line of tinned and boxed toffees, chocolates and sweets, first manufactured in 1936 by Mackintosh's in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It was named after J. M. Barrie's play Quality Street. [1] Since 1988, the confectionery has been produced by Nestlé. Quality Street has long been a competitor to Cadbury Roses, which were ...

  3. Mackintosh's - Wikipedia

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    After John Mackintosh's death in 1920, his eldest son, Harold Mackintosh took charge. The company was floated as John Mackintosh & Sons Ltd in March 1921. By paying the shareholders of the old company ordinary and preference shares in a sum greater than the issued capital of John Mackintosh Ltd., together with a substantial distribution, they [who?] controlled some 93% of the new firm; two of ...

  4. Cadbury Roses - Wikipedia

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    Tin of Cadbury Roses. Cadbury Roses is a brand of chocolates made by Cadbury.Introduced in the UK in 1938 (as a competitor to Quality Street launched by Mackintosh's in 1936), they were named after the English packaging equipment company "Rose Brothers" based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, that manufactured and supplied the machines that wrapped the chocolates.

  5. History of retail - Wikipedia

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    From as early as 200 BCE, Chinese packaging and branding were used to signal family, place names, and product quality. Government-imposed product branding was also used between 600 and 900 CE. [ 19 ] Eckhart and Bengtsson have argued that during the Song Dynasty (960–1127), Chinese society developed a consumerist culture, where a high level ...

  6. Celebrations (confectionery) - Wikipedia

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    It comprises miniature versions of full size Mars brands. Celebrations have the tagline "Share the joy", and were one of the first mixed box of chocolates in the United Kingdom to bring together confectionery which had been already released in one box or tin instead of introducing new, especially-created confectionery made exclusively for the ...

  7. Detailed logarithmic timeline - Wikipedia

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    Visual representation of the Logarithmic timeline in the scale of the universe. This timeline shows the whole history of the universe, the Earth, and mankind in one table. Each row is defined in years ago, that is, years before the present date, with the earliest times at the top of the chart. In each table cell on the right, references to ...

  8. Economic history of China before 1912 - Wikipedia

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    For example, all the rice shops would occupy one street, and all the fish shops another. [156] Unlike the later Ming dynasty, most businesses during the Song dynasty were producers and retailers, selling the products they produced, thus creating a mixture of handicraft and commerce.

  9. Tin sources and trade during antiquity - Wikipedia

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    Within recorded history, Cornwall and Devon only dominated the European market for tin from late Roman times, starting around the 3rd century AD, as many Spanish tin mines were exhausted. [23] Cornwall maintained its importance as a source of tin throughout medieval times and into the modern period.