About Bonds of London Candy Canes
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The story of Bonds of London Candy Canes
Hung on the tree, gone by Boxing Day
Candy canes go on the tree as decoration. That is the official story. By Boxing Day the branches round the back, the ones nobody can see from the door, are bare, and every child in the house looks deeply innocent. The name on the pack is Bonds of London, a firm the trade press called one of the UK's oldest sweet businesses. Quite a pedigree for something destined to be quietly pinched off a tree.
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Jars, bags and sherbet lemons
Bonds of London has historically been known for traditional British sweets such as pick'n'mix jars and hanging bags. That is the sort of thing you stood in front of with your pocket money, doing very serious sums. Its best-known sweet jars include retro classics such as sherbet lemons and wine gums. If you ever walked home with a paper bag of sherbet lemons rattling about and a hand that stayed sticky until teatime, you remember the feeling.
New owners, same man in charge
In April 2016 Bonds of London was bought by US-foods wholesaler Innovative Bites in a multimillion-pound deal. Innovative Bites was founded in 2008 by Vishal Madhu. The owners changed. The managing director, Philip Courtenay-Luck, stayed on with the business. A year later, Innovative Bites went on to acquire pick'n'mix wholesaler Hancocks Cash & Carry in a deal worth about £100m. That is a lot of money for pick'n'mix. Nobody who has ever emptied a bag of wine gums would call it wasted.
The tree, the stocking, the sofa
A candy cane works hard at a British Christmas. It hangs on the tree, it pokes out of the top of a stocking, and it ends up sucked to a dangerous point by someone on the sofa halfway through the film. Nobody has just the one, and nobody owns up to the missing ones. A small taste of a UK Christmas, wherever home happens to be now.