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United Biscuits (UB) is a British multinational food manufacturer, makers of McVitie's biscuits, Jacob's Cream Crackers, and Twiglets. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index .
Boland's Bakery was the largest bakery in Dublin in the late 19th century. It was founded by the Boland family. It was founded by the Boland family. The company sold a number of products such as bread, biscuits, cakes, confectionery and flour, although over the years biscuits became the company's main product.
By 1915, the factory was producing 200,000 biscuits per day! World War I squeezed the business. In 1917, rusk and cookie sales were $100,000, but profits were a meager $718.
View of the production floor, Jacob's Ireland factory, 1910. The originator of the Jacob's brand name was the small biscuit bakery, W. & R. Jacob, founded in 1851 in Bridge Street, Waterford, Ireland, by William Beale Jacob and his brother Robert. In 1852, it moved to Bishop Street in Dublin, Ireland, with a factory in Peter's Row.
Between the late 1980s and early 1990s, Phileas Fogg snacks achieved a turnover of more than £30 million. In 1993, the brand was purchased by United Biscuits for £24 million. [3] [2] The four founders left after the sale [2] while United Biscuits made significant changes to the packaging and identity, precipitating a decline in popularity.
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Sayers then remained a family business until 1977, when it was sold to United Biscuits. It was sold again to Warburtons in July 1990, a baking firm based in Bolton. Warburtons also bought Hampsons, Sayers' sister company and other bakeries in their estate included Burneys of Rochdale, Spinks of Sharston, Parkers of Eccles, Burtons of Blackpool. [2]
Campbell Soup Co. may make a £1.5 billion ($2.3 billion) bid for the biscuit-making unit of British company United Biscuits.Campbell is interested in the biscuit business, which makes up around ...