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If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Loss of operational independence in 1967. Fry’s, was a British chocolate company owned by Joseph Storrs Fry and his family. Beginning in Bristol in the 18th century, the business went through several changes of name and ownership, becoming J. Fry, alongside Cadbury and Rowntree’s, was one of the big three British confectionery manufacturers throughout much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and all three companies were founded by Quakers.

Joseph Fry, a Quaker, was born in 1728. He started making chocolate around 1759. In 1761, Fry and John Vaughan purchased a small shop from an apothecary, Walter Churchman, and with it the patent for a chocolate refining process. In 1803, Anna Fry died and Joseph Storrs Fry partnered with a Dr. In 1822 Hunt retired and Joseph Storrs Fry took on his sons Joseph, Francis and Richard as partners: the firm was renamed “J.

The company became the largest commercial producer of chocolate in the UK. In 1835, Joseph Storrs Fry died and his sons took full control. In 1847, the Fry’s chocolate factory on Union Street, Bristol, moulded a chocolate bar suitable for large-scale production. The firm began producing the Fry’s Chocolate Cream bar in 1866. In 1881, an employee of Fry’s, H. Packer, established his own chocolate business in Bristol. At its eventual home in Greenbank, Bristol, Packer’s Chocolate continued to provide local competition for Fry’s until 2006, under various owners and brands, from Bonds through to Famous Names and Elizabeth Shaw.