Talk:Hoadley's Chocolates

Rowntree Hoadley products
Upon the takeover of Hoadley's by Rowntree in 1972, the new company greatly expanded its product line, including non-chocolate confectionery. It also built upon Hoadley's existing products, which appears to include adding new flavours to the 'Knight' range, as although the original White Knight was a Hoadley's product, I cannot find any references to the caramel, musk and spearmint varieties, prior to a a 1973 factory order sheet as per the stated reference in the original article. As for the Lady Beetle, I have not been able to find any references to the date this product was first manufactured or discontinued from sale, other than general time frames and also appears to be a product of the Rowntree Hoadley era. Furthermore, it seems it may only have available for sale in the Lady Beetle showbag, based upon the success of the Bertie Beetle showbag in the 1970s. New sources (offine) are required to confirm this information. Blammy1 (talk) 16:37, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Date of rowntree purchasing hoadley
I was reading about Quakers and followed a link to Rowntree. In the article it states that Rowntree acquired Hoadley's of Australia in 1972, Whereas the Abel Hoadley pages states that the purchase was in 1970. I just think both pages should be agreement Blackmutton (talk) 02:53, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Reply
(It's been about six months since I wrote this article, so I am working from memory...) While compiling this article all my searches pointed to the take-over being completed in 1972, which was when the company and its products were rebranded under the new name - I think 1970 was possibly the year when talks of the takeover commenced. I agree that there should be consistency of information across similar pages, but at the time I wrote this article the Abel Hoadley page was IMO quite a mess; it was a mixture of information regarding the man, his company and later incarnations of the brand, etc i.e. information that I felt wasn't relevant too the article, which should have been a biography. Basically, that article was a can of worms that I did not want to touch. Blammy1 (talk) 01:07, 9 March 2021 (UTC)