The company was set up by Walter Richard Fox as a wholesale grocery and confectionery business in 1880.
After purchasing Rowntree-Macintosh in 1988, Nestlé sold the Fox's Brand and its Leicester site to Northern Foods in 2001.
Big Bear Confectionery had sites in Blackburn, Leicester and Nimbus.
Peppy (from peppermint)[2] the polar bear is the original trademark used for Fox's Glacier Mints and was created by Leicester-based artist C. Reginald Dalby, better known for illustrating The Railway Series books by the Rev.
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