Fox's Biscuits is a British biscuit manufacturer, founded by the Fox family in Batley, West Yorkshire, in 1853, and currently a subsidiary of Italian multinational food company Ferrero. The head office and main factory are based in the town, and the company has another site in Wesham in Lancashire. Its biscuits are exported to Europe, North America and Asia.
The business is known for mass-market and chocolate-covered biscuit bars such as Rocky, Classic, Echo, Crunch Creams, and Party Rings. The company also makes own brand biscuit products for a number of supermarkets.
History
The company was founded in 1853 in a terraced house, 17 Whitaker Street, in Batley in West Yorkshire by Michael Spedding, who worked from his small bakehouse making "eatables" to sell at feasts and fairs held throughout the north of England. His daughter Hannah provided the name for the company when she married Fred Ellis Fox in the late 1800s.[1][2] The house in Whitaker Street still stands. The bakery moved to former wartime allotments site in Batley in 1927.
In 1960, it became a limited company and was named Fox's Biscuits.