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Glacier Mints
The Fox Company was founded in 1895 by grocer Walter R.
Fox. The earliest site was on York Road, Leicester, but the company
moved a few years later to nearby Oxford Street, where the manufacture
of the famous mints continued until the move to their current site in
Sunningdale Road, Braunstone, Leicester in 1965. Fox's Glacier Mints
went through several changes of ownership, from Rowntree Mackintosh to
Nestle, then Northern Foods. The company became independently owned by
Big Bear Ltd in 2003. They have retained their identity with consumers
and the mints are still being produced to the traditional recipe at the
Braunstone factory.
