Toffee Tales

The Colour Purple

In 2008, Cadbury applied to trademark the purple colour, Pantone 2865c, in a number of categories but Nestlé challenged the registration claiming it “lacked distinctive

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Nestlé’s v Suchard

Less than 20 years after the merger with Rowntree they too were ready to be taken over. In early April, 1988 Rowntree’s shares were under

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Riley’s Toffees

Besides Mackintosh’s there were other toffee manufacturers in the Calderdale area. Appleyard’s Toffee manufacturing company had offices and works in Woolshops as well as The

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Rowntree Mackintosh

In September 1931, Harold Vincent Mackintosh narrowly avoided merging the company with Rowntrees of York. Both companies already had a joint subsidiary in the Republic

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Travels Abroad

It is so easy to form wrong ideas of people of different nations through superficial knowledge. The more one has traveled the broader one’s mind

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