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Fox’s Glacier Mints are a boiled mint sweet established in the UK in 1918. Originally developed by confectioner Eric Fox, the brand now sells a range of flavours. The mint is perhaps most well known ...
THE company behind Fox’s Glacier Mints has revealed merger plans that could see its Leicester factory shut down and 200 staff axed. Big Bear Confectionery, which also makes Just Brazils and XXX ...
Workers at a sweet factory which produces Fox's Glacier Mints are due to walk out in a row over pay. Dozens of staff at the York site, which makes other well-known ranges such as Mint Humbugs, are ...
Fox’s Glacier Mints date back to 1918, but the Fox company itself was founded years earlier by an ambitious grocer called Walter Richard Fox. The original business launched in Leicester in 1880 ...
Big Bear, the food company behind Fox's Glacier Mints and Poppets, has kicked off a £500,000 marketing drive to boost sales of its new product innovations and attract new consumers to its brands.
The former Fox's Glacier Mints factory, in Braunstone Frith, closed last year when the parent company moved away. Duncan and Stephen Keates bought the site in October for their business ADS Laser ...
NORTHERN Foods, which supplies chilled foods to retailers like Marks & Spencer, will this week clear the way for a major shakeout of its operations. Peter Blackburn, who became chairman last year ...
THE company behind Fox’s Glacier Mints has revealed merger plans that could see its Leicester factory shut down and 200 staff axed. Big Bear Confectionery, which also makes Just Brazils and XXX ...
Fox’s Glacier Mints update Peppy the polar bear in “retro-progressive” rebrand. Derek&Eric has put Peppy the polar bear front and centre of the new identity, with details inspired by the brand’s ...
Fox's Glacier Mints had been made in Leicester since 1918. Image source, ADS Laser. Image caption, Hoppers containing mint powder and pipework full of chocolate was found in the factory.