Rowntree’s Fruit Pastilles have been around for close to a century-and-a-half, having been launched in England in 1881. Throughout the years, several customers have requested that the recipe be ...

Nestle, which owns the confectionery brand, has been bombarded with complaints on social media about its Fruit Pastilles and Jelly Tots. Users on X have been writing to the food and drinks giant ...

Sweets like Fizzy Jerkz, Fruitang, Sweet'n'Sour Dweebs and Nerds. In this very competitive market, Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles is on the one hand a top five children's confectionery... We’re long-term ...

Nestle has been bombarded with complaints on social media about its Fruit Pastilles and Jelly Tots. "Green ones taste like soap - I used to love them," one fumed. "I thought it was a one off bag ...

The factory – the home of the Rolo and Fruit Pastilles - employed around 2,000 full and part time workers at its peak, when packing was carried out by hand. “The closure announcement came out ...

Marathon became Snickers; Opal Fruits became Fruit Pastilles; and even if the name of your beloved bar hasn’t changed, the packaging may have. Though not every packaging is as, err, notable as ...

The history of a Tyneside confectionery factory has been recorded in a new book. The closure of the Nestle plant in Fawdon led to hundreds of job losses. David Faulkner, a city councillor for the ...