Sun-Pat
Sun-Pat is a brand of peanut butter in the United Kingdom, the UK's favourite brand of peanut butter, used for 300 million sandwiches and rounds of toast a year.
1890 Peanut butter was first invented by a St. Louis physician.
1930s American peanut butter was sold in the UK since the 1930s.
By 1947 when H. S. Whiteside and Co was incorporated as a public company, its most well known trade mark was Sun-Pat
1960s Sun-Pat was produced as a by-product of a nut-packing operation in Hadfield, Derbyshire.
1967 H S Whiteside went into liquidation; Sun-Pat Products was sold to Rowntree and Co[1].
In the early 1990s a range of cheese spreads were also produced under the Sun-Pat brand but were later discontinued.
2002 The brand was acquired by Premier Foods when it acquired Nestlé's ambient food business.
2004 The nut-packing factory in Hadfield was closed and production has now moved to Histon in Cambridgeshire.
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- ↑ The Times, June 21, 1967