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The original Arnott's logo depicted a multi-coloured parrot sitting atop a T-shaped perch, eating a cracker biscuit. During a radio interview on ABC, William Arnott's great-great-great-grandson stated that the logo represents the proverb "Honesty is the best policy" where the phrase was constructed from "On his T, is the best pol' (polly) I see".
Arnott's Biscuits became a shareholder in Mills and Ware [4] [5] in 1953 and the company was renamed Arnott's Mills and Ware Ltd. In October 1973 Arnott's became the majority shareholder and in 1991 announced that the factory would be closed in 1992.
William Arnott, c. 1869 William Arnott was a prominent member of the Wesleyan Church and taught Sunday school for close to 25 years. [11] In 1848, Arnott wed Monica Sinclair, who already had four children at the time of the marriage; Sinclair died aged 36 on 11 April 1865. [4]
The Kingston Biscuit falls under the 'Delicious Creams' family of Arnotts' sweet biscuits. The Kingston is widely available in Australia , sold in most supermarkets in 200 g (7.1 oz) packages of twelve individual biscuits, [ 4 ] or as one of the five biscuits in the Arnott's Assorted Creams 500 g (18 oz) variety pack.
Brockhoff Biscuits was an Australian manufacturer of biscuits founded in 1860 by Adolf F. Brockhoff. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1963 Arnott's Biscuits and the company merged, although they continued to trade under both names for several years until the "Brockhoff" name was completely dropped in the late 1970s.
In the 1993 book The Story of Arnott's Famous Biscuits, Ross Arnott states that Sao was the name of a sailing boat [a] which his grandfather (Arnott's founder William Arnott) saw on Lake Macquarie, of which he said "That would make a good name for a biscuit." [7] 1905 advertisement for SAO biscuits in the Sydney Morning Herald
The crisp interior biscuit is eventually softened and the outer chocolate coating begins to melt, at which point the biscuit is eaten. The Arnott's company used the name Tim Tam Suck in a 2002 advertising campaign. [66] [67] In February 2019, Arnott's released a "Slams"-branded version of the Tim Tam biscuit. [68]
Snack Foods Limited is an Australian snack food company and was officially formed on 25 November 1999, and was owned by Arnott's Biscuits Limited, a subsidiary of the American Campbell Soup Company. [1] Snack Foods Limited owns one of Australia's largest salted snack food companies, Snack Brands Australia.