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First produced in 1925, travel writer Bill Bryson called it a “British masterpiece”. It is the UK's most popular biscuit to dunk into tea. [25] McVitie & Price's first major biscuit was the McVitie's digestive, created in 1892 by a new young employee at the company named Sir Alexander Grant. [26]
BN Biscuits (or Biscuiterie Nantaise) is a biscuit brand originally hailing from France, consisting of 2 golden-baked biscuits sandwiched together with a filling, originally chocolate-flavoured. It was launched in 1932, acquired by United Biscuits in 1998, and relaunched in September 2000.
Fazer is the leading producer of chocolates, sweets and biscuits in Finland with a market share of 30-40%. The Confectionery division has production facilities in Vantaa and Lappeenranta. Confectionery is sold in more than 40 countries. Fazer's confectionery factories in Finland are located in Lappeenranta (sugar confectionery) and Vantaa ...
Meanwhile, in 1948, under John Hekman, Hekman Biscuit tripled its production, employing 450 people. Hekman Biscuit became part of Keebler in 1960, which became part of United Biscuit in 1974 and ...
In 1995, United Biscuits announced plans to spin off the snack chip business, [20] but ended up selling the entire company to a partnership between Flowers Industries and Artal Luxembourg, a private equity firm. [21] Artal Luxembourg sold its holdings in Keebler in an IPO in 1998. [22] The Keebler Company purchased Sunshine Biscuits in 1996. [23]
Carr's is a British biscuit and cracker manufacturer, currently owned by Pladis Global through its subsidiary United Biscuits. The company was founded in 1831 by Jonathan Dodgson Carr and is marketed in the United States by Kellogg's .
The snacks industry in general, and biscuits in particular, has an oddly deep history in Michigan, dating back to when Will Keith Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in ...
William Macdonald founded Macdonald Biscuits in Glasgow in 1928. After seeing some biscuits from Antwerp he was inspired to create a chocolate covered biscuit with a chocolate cream sandwich in the centre. [1] They were first produced in 1932, and became a McVitie's product a few years after MacDonald was taken over by United Biscuits in 1965 ...