... sweets...Memorabilia: Glass tube of sweets... of his profession reads like a modern fairy-tale"
-Romance of Sweets, The Brisbane Courier, 16th January, 1928...These sweets were created in the shape of animals and were a hit with children.
He may have recalled this early success when he later developed the idea for a simple, cheap chocolate animal, later to become Freddo Frog. As the factory grew, so did ...
MacRobertson Steam Confectionery Works was a confectionery company founded in 1880 by Macpherson Robertson and operated by his family in Fitzroy, Melbourne until 1967 when it was sold to Cadbury.
This story accompanies the 'Nail Can to Knighthood: the life of Sir Macpherson Robertson KBE' exhibition which took place at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in 2015.