Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,645 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Lion Confectionery Co

From Graces Guide

of Cleckheaton

1921 Incorporated as a limited company

1990 Bassett Foods PLC, part of the Cadbury Schweppes group, acquired The Lion Confectionery Co[1]; the companies trade and assets were transferred to Bassetts. The company became a dormant one.

2000 Cadbury Ltd, Trebor Bassett Ltd and the Lion Confectionery Co entered a partnership agreement and formed Cadbury Trebor Bassett, all subsidiaries of Cadbury plc[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. 1990 Bassett annual report
  2. 2009 Annual report of the Old Leo Co
  • Companies House filing