The story
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. 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. It was purchased by Northern Foods in 1977, which itself was acquired by 2 Sisters Food Group in 2011. In September 2013, the Yorkshire Society unveiled a White Rose plaque at the site of the first bakery on Whitaker Street: the first time that the society had presented a plaque to commemorate the formation of a business.
The Uttoxeter site was operated as Elkes Biscuits before merging in 2003. Elkes Biscuits, previously Fox's Biscuits, has a factory in Uttoxeter. Elkes was the creator of the malted milk biscuit.
In October 2020, Ferrero bought Fox's Biscuits for £246 million. In 2020, Fox's Biscuits won the Lausanne Index Prize – Bronze Award.
From Wikipedia’s article on Fox's Biscuits, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4