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An early Weet-Bix tin from the 1930s. Weet-Bix was developed by Bennison Osborne in Sydney, Australia, in the mid-1910s. Osborne set out to make a product more palatable than Granose, a biscuit that was marketed by the Sanitarium Health Food Company at that time. On 19 August 1926, he lodged an application for registration of the trademark Weet ...
Vegemite (/ ˈ v ɛ dʒ i m aɪ t / VEJ-ee-myte) [1] [2] is a thick, dark brown [3] Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives. It was developed by Cyril Callister in Melbourne , Victoria for the Fred Walker Company in 1922, and it was first sold in stores on 25 October 1923.
Produced in the UK since 1932, Weetabix is the British version of the original Australian Weet-Bix. Both Weet-Bix and Weetabix were invented by Bennison Osborne, an Australian. Weet-Bix was introduced in Australia by the company "Grain Products Limited" in the mid-1920s, with funding from businessman Arthur Shannon and marketing assistance from ...
Articles related to the breakfast foods Weet-Bix and Weetabix - and their various derivatives. Pages in category "Weetabix cereals" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Weet-Bix was originally manufactured, from 1928, at 659 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt, where until recent times Sanitarium signage could still be seen. This factory predates the purchase of Weet-Bix by Sanitarium in 1930. Another factory was constructed for Sanitarium in Warburton, Victoria in 1925 to manufacture Granose. This factory was damaged ...
See History of Weet-Bix. The food product was originally invented in Australia in the 1920s by Bennison Osborne. Osborne and his friend Malcolm MacFarlane successfully launched Weet-Biscs in Australia and New Zealand under the sponsorship of the owner of Grain Products Ltd., who soon sold the Australasian rights to the Australasian Conference Association Limited Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing ...
"Weet-Bix was invented by Bennison Osborne in N.S.W., Australia in the mid 1920s. Benn set out to make a product more palatable than "Granose." He tried his new product on his little nieces and nephews until he had it perfected, and in 1928 he registered the tradename "Weetbix" and production started at 659 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt, N.S.W ...
A biography of Callister, The Man Who Invented Vegemite, written by his grandson Jamie Callister, was published in 2012. [4] [13] Callister is the great uncle to Kent Callister, a professional snowboarder who has competed at the Winter Olympics for Australia. The Cyril Callister Foundation, established in 2019, commemorates his life and work.