[6] Crosse & Blackwell opened a vinegar brewery in Caledonian Road and started pickle packing at Soho Square (described by Henry Mayhew in his 1865 book The Shops and Companies of London, and the Trades and Manufactories of Great Britain, in a report entitled 'Girls in Pickle').

In 1875–76, the company commissioned a two-storey stable complex at 111 Charing Cross Road, designed by architect Robert Lewis Roumieu.

[7] Before World War I, Crosse & Blackwell (a limited company since 1892) established its first factory in continental Europe, in Hamburg.

The latter had a factory at Tay Wharf in east London's Silvertown district, close to the River Thames, rail links and Henry Tate's sugar refinery.

[7] After World War I, Crosse & Blackwell established further factories overseas (by 1930, it had plants in Baltimore, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Paris and Toronto, as well as in the UK and Hamburg).

[14] In 1920, Crosse & Blackwell made a successful £612,856 bid to acquire a factory site in Branston, just outside Burton upon Trent, which they pledged to turn into the largest and best-equipped food preserving plant in the British Empire.

It continued manufacture of preserves, chocolates and confectionery until it was again destroyed, this time bombed during the first daylight air raid on London on 7 September 1940.

[2] In 1960, Nestlé bought the Crosse & Blackwell Group[17] and developed the name across a number of food categories worldwide.

Smucker Company in North America, Princes Group in Europe and Tiger Brands in South Africa.