The total takeover cost approximately $255 million and each shareholder received a dividend of 2.5 cents per share from Snack Foods Limited.
The picket line remained for 143 days, with the company refusing to reinstate the workers and seeking common law damages against the union.
A number of bomb and arson threats were made against Dollar Sweets and one strike-breaking driver was assaulted and his truck vandalised.
The company alleged union interference with contractual relations, intimidation, nuisance, and a conspiracy to injure the plaintiff and sought an injunction and punitive damages.
In December 1985 Victorian Supreme Court Justice Peter Murphy gave judgement, describing the picketing as "stupid and nihilistic."