Fox's Confectionery

Big Bear Ltd
Industry	Confectionery
Founded	1880
Headquarters	Braunstone, Leicester, United Kingdom
Parent	Valeo Foods
Website	Fox's Confectionery

Fox's Confectionery is an English confectionery company based in Braunstone, Leicester which was founded in 1880.

History

The company was set up Walter Richard Fox as a wholesale grocery and confectionery business in 1880. It started in a Victorian warehouse in Leicester. By 1897 Fox was manufacturing over 100 different confectionery lines.^[1]

In 1969 the company was acquired by Mackintosh's, a year prior to the creation of Rowntree Mackintosh when Mackintosh merged with Rowntree's of York. After purchasing Rowntree-Macintosh in 1988 Nestlé sold the Fox's Brand and its Leicester site to Northern Foods in 2001. The company was sold to Big Bear Ltd in 2003. Big Bear Confectionery had sites in Blackburn, Leicester and Nimbus.

Peppy (from peppermint)^[2] the polar bear is the original trademark used for Fox's Glacier Mints and was created by Leicester-based artist C. Reginald Dalby, better known for illustrating The Railway Series books by the Rev. W. Awdry.^[3]

Fox's Confectionery was acquired by Valeo Foods in 2015.^[4]

Products

Fox's "Glacier" Range
- Fox's Glacier Mints
- Fox's Glacier Fruits
- Fox's Glacier Dark
Paynes Poppets
XXX Mints
Just Mints
Just Brazils
- Milk Chocolate Just Brazils
- Dark Chocolate Just Brazils
Le Bar (discontinued ~1994)

References

^ "About Fox's Confectionery". Fox's Confectionery. Archived from the original on 2 August 2007. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
^ "Fox's Glacier Mints". Leicester City Council. Archived from the original on 28 January 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
^ Jack, Ian (18 June 2005). "Tunnel Vision". ("Ian Jack is perplexed by an academic take on the Rev W Awdrey's [sic] 'funny little engine'"). guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
^ Valeo Foods Group agrees €100 million acquisition of Raisio Plc’s confectionery division

External links

Company website
XXX Mints
Guardian article: Callow returns as Fox's polar bear
Guardian article: Fox's biscuits launches 'danda' ad (mentions image rights vs Fox Polar Bear)

Nestlé

Divisions

Nestlé Purina PetCare Nestlé Waters Nestlé Wyeth Nutrition
Divested	BlueTriton Brands (Nestlé Waters North America)

Subsidiaries

Joint ventures

Other assets

Brands

Appliances	BabyNes Dolce Gusto Nespresso Special.T SICAL
Baby nutrition	BabyNes Bear Brand Cerelac Gerber Nido
Baking	Libby's Toll House cookies
Bottled water	Contrex Acqua Panna Perrier Princes Gate Pure Life S.Pellegrino Vittel
Cereals	Cheerios¹ Chocapic Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cookie Crisp¹ Corn Flakes Fitness Golden Grahams¹ Golden Nuggets Lion Cereal Lucky Charms¹ Milo Cereal Nesquik (cereal)^6,7 Trix¹ Shreddies⁷ Shredded Wheat⁷
Chocolate and desserts	Animal Bar Abuelita Aero Aero Biscuits After Eight Allen's Bar One Bertie Beetle Big Turk Blue Riband Black Magic Bono Breakaway Cailler Caramac Carlos V Cheekies Chokito Coffee Crisp Crisp Crunch¹² Drifter Fox's Garoto Goobers Kit Kat³ Kit Kats in Japan Kohler Life Savers¹⁴ Lion Mackintosh's Toffee Matchmakers Menier Chocolate Milkybar Milo Mirage Munchies Negresco Nestlé Milk Chocolate Passatempo Peppermint Crisp Perugina Polo Quality Street Red Ripperz Rolo³ Rowntree's Rowntree's Fruit Gums Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles Sin Parar Smarties⁴ Svitoch TEX Walnut Whip White Knight Yorkie Zvečevo
Coffee and beverages	Abuelita Alpine⁸ Acticor BabyNes Blue Bottle Coffee Boost Carnation^8,9 Caro Chameleon Cold-Brew Chuckie Coffee-Mate Dolce Gusto Huesitos Klim La Lechera Menier Milo cocoa Nescafé Nescafé Azera Nescafé Gold Nescau Nesfruta Nespresso Nesquik Nestea Ovaltine⁴ Ricoré Seattle's Best Coffee Starbucks ¹³ Supligen Sweet Leaf Zoégas
Dairy products	Alpine⁸ Bear Brand^10,11 Carnation^8,9 Coffee-Mate La Lechera Nesquik
Ice cream	D'Onofrio Drumstick¹⁵ Eskimo Pie¹⁵ Fab Frosty Paws¹⁵ Häagen-Dazs^2,15 Hjem-IS Ice Screamers Kit Kat¹⁵ Maxibon Mövenpick Parlour Savory Smarties
Prepared and packaged food and snacks	Buitoni California Pizza Kitchen DiGiorno Herta Hot Pockets Lean Cuisine Libby's Lean Pockets Maggi Stouffer's Thomy Tombstone Uncle Tobys Winiary Wagner Yinlu Foods
Purina PetCare	Alpo Bakers Complete Beggin' Strips Beneful Bonio Dog Chow Fancy Feast Felix Friskies Frosty Paws ONE Winalot
Uncle Tobys	Cheerios¹ PLUS Weeties
Former brands and subsidiaries	Alcon Alfasigma Arrowhead Butterfinger Baby Ruth Chocolate Surpresa Deer Park Dreyer's¹⁵ Enviga Gale's Galderma Laboratories Cetaphil Epiduo Restylane Hoadley's Ice Mountain Jenny Craig Ozarka Peter's Chocolate Poland Spring Polly Waffle PowerBar Powwow Water Rowntree Mackintosh Violet Crumble Wonder Ball Zephyrhills

People

¹ Currently manufactured by General Mills in the U.S. and Canada. Produced by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere. ² Brand owned by General Mills; U.S. and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license. ³ U.S. production rights owned by The Hershey Company. ⁴ U.S. rights and production owned by the Smarties Candy Company with a different product. ⁵ U.S. rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned by Associated British Foods. ⁶ Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlé. ⁷ Produced by Cereal Partners and branded as Nestlé in the U.K. and Ireland. Produced by Post Foods elsewhere. ⁸ Philippine production rights owned by Alaska Milk Corporation. ⁹ Singaporean, Malaysian and Thai production rights owned by Fraser and Neave. ¹⁰ Used only in Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia. ¹¹ Used only in the Philippines. ¹² U.S. production rights owned by the Ferrara Candy Company. ¹³ NA rights and specific trade dress to all packaged coffee and other products under the Starbucks brand owned by Nestlé since 2019. ¹⁴ Brand owned by Mars, sold by Nestlé in Canada. ¹⁵ Produced by Froneri in the U.S. since 2020.

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