About Bonds of London Chocolate Eclairs
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The story of Bonds of London Chocolate Eclairs
The one that ends the conversation
You unwrap one, pop it in, and you are out of the conversation for a while. A chocolate eclair is that kind of sweet: the one in your nan's handbag, the one rattling in the car door pocket on a long drive, the one you were told to go easy on for the sake of your fillings. This bag carries the Bonds of London name, a firm the trade press once counted among the UK's oldest sweet businesses. Your fillings are on their own.
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An old sweet firm, a new owner
When Bonds of London changed hands in April 2016, it was a multimillion-pound deal. The buyer was Innovative Bites, a US-foods wholesaler founded in 2008 by Vishal Madhu. Not everything changed, mind. Managing director Philip Courtenay-Luck stayed on with the business. That is the sort of steady hand you want when the thing at stake is a nation's supply of sweets.
Jars, bags and the pick'n'mix habit
Vishal Madhu put it simply: Bonds of London has historically been known for traditional British sweets, the pick'n'mix jars and hanging bags. Among its best-known jars are retro classics such as sherbet lemons and wine gums, the sort you pointed at through the glass aged eight. A year after buying Bonds of London, Innovative Bites went on to acquire pick'n'mix wholesaler Hancocks Cash & Carry in a deal worth about £100m. That is a lot of paper bags.
The glovebox regular
Plenty of British families keep a bag of sweets living in the glovebox, and eclairs have always earned their place there. They get passed round on the motorway, offered to whoever is driving, and fished out of a coat pocket weeks later, slightly flattened and eaten regardless. The last one sits unclaimed for days, then vanishes, and nobody saw a thing. Keep a bag in the car and the whole investigation can start again.