The company moved to the larger Eagle Liquorice Works in 1887, but the partnership broke up in 1892 leaving Ewbanks solely in charge.

The company was purchased from the Parkinson family by Samuel Balmforth in 1892, before the business was incorporated in 1912 and moved to new premises in Wheatley.

Yeatman's Delicious Jelly Tablets were exported to Australasia, and the company produced the first sweets for Marks & Spencer.

Their factories in Stepney were destroyed by fire during the Blitz, and with government assistance, Yeatman's opened a new factory in Watford, where they made a more restricted line of canned and bottled fruit, fruit squashes, sweets (under the Goodies and Selesta brands), and their best-remembered product, Sunny Spread.

The company by the early 1920s was Britain's 4th largest chocolate manufacturer and employed over 2000 employees, introducing new lines like Milk Crispets.

During World War II the factory moved over to munitions, with the company's products manufactured by Rowntree's under license.

The company's factory was very efficient and earned contracts for own brand products with Woolworths and Marks & Spencer.

The company saw a boom after sugar rationing was dropped in 1954, but later in the decade sales declined in the toffee market, and in 1960 Fillerys were bought by J A & P Holland.

However the new factory also fell to a devastating fire in 1968, and the business was purchased by Cavenham Foods and production moved to Greenbank.

[22][1] In the 1890s John Holland developed a new way to produce creamy toffee from premises at 23a Cross Street, Southport that had been given to him by his uncle James Ford.

A fire damaged the doctors in 1940, but after World War II the company expanded, exporting to the United States for the first time in 1953.

[4] The company floated on the Liverpool Stock Exchange in 1953, and a year later an extension was added to the Virginia Street factory.

[4][26] The Daily Mail called Holland the world's biggest toffee manufacturer,[27][28] and by 1965 it controlled 33 wholesaling warehouses.

[29] John Arthur Holland Junior invented a soft toffee in 1963, which was launched as Chewzits (later relaunched by Cavenham as Chewits).

[42][1][43] In March 2006 Elizabeth Shaw's chocolate business was purchased by Nói Síríus, the largest confectionery manufacturer in Iceland.

[45][46] In 2016, Colian Holding, Poland's largest confectionery manufacturer, acquired Elizabeth Shaw from Imagine Capital.

In August 2014, the site's new owners Generator South West look likely to proceed with a new project after holding a public meeting to understand local residents' opinions.

Developers Generator Group worked with Bristol City Council to ensure that 36 shared ownership homes were created alongside the private housing.

[53] Records of Elizabeth Shaw Limited, primarily relating to the Greenbank factory, are held at Bristol Archives.

The collection also includes some records of HJ Packers, Carsons Ltd, Cavenham Confectionary Ltd, United Biscuits, Hollands Toffees, and Huhtamäki amongst others which are linked with Elizabeth Shaw Limited (Ref.