British snack food brand owned by United Biscuits. 1830 on Rose Street mary b biscuits Edinburgh, Scotland.
He utilised the basement area below the shop as the bakery. By 1865 the bakery had moved to 47 London Street at the east end of town and he was living nearby in a flat at 76 Broughton Street. It was only then that the business abandoned bread and cakes to concentrate on biscuits, largely due to their longer lifespan. In 1887 he employed Alexander Grant from Forres, an experienced biscuit maker, to aid in this.
In 1875 the company had been joined by Charles Edward Price as a salesman. In 1888 they built the huge St Andrews Biscuit Works on Robertson Avenue in the Gorgie district of south-west Edinburgh. Price’s Digestive biscuit tin, located in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Plain digestives were launched in 1892. In 1891 the London salesman for the company George Andrews Brown persuaded the company to redesign their Rich Tea biscuit to a smaller size to accommodate the London taste.
He is memorialised in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh. Ltd, in 1948 to become United Biscuits Group. It is the most popular biscuit in the UK to dunk into tea. The affair, regarded by many as corruption by the prime minister, severely shook the government. Price made the wedding cake for Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten. This redundancy announcement was also due to the modernisation agenda of the company and also involves a move from an 8-hour 5-day operation, to a 12-hour 7-day operation. This cake was over 2 metres high and cost 140 guineas.
It was viewed by 14,000 and was wonderful publicity for the company. They received many commissions for royal wedding cakes and christening cakes. See how chocolate digestives are made at a London biscuit factory”. Biscuits: Taste for nostalgia grows biccies”.