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Kerr Brothers Limited (using the brand "Kerr's") is a candy manufacturer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

History
Kerr brothers Edward and Albert Kerr immigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1895 and opened a bakery. The brothers opened their first factory in Brantford, Ontario in 1898. The brothers moved to Toronto in 1904.

Products
A form of molasses candy taffy, known as "hallowe'en kisses", is produced in time for the Hallowe'en occasion. The candy was first offered by Kerr's in the 1940s. At the time, a molasses candy was made by Stewart and Young in Glasgow. A recipe for the candy appeared in the 1887 White House cook book. Its ingredients are corn syrup, sugar, blackstrap molasses, coconut oil, salt, cotton stearine, mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin and artificial flavour. After a 2016 CBC online survey placed the molasses candy dead last, the CBC interviewed the company's president Ryan Martic, who admitted that within the company people liked/disliked the candy 50/50.