biscuit company is a united kingdom biscuit manufacturer . the company was formed from the merger of burton s gold medal biscuits and horizon biscuit company in october 2000 and re branded from burton s foods to burton s biscuit company in november 2011 . it employs over 2 200 people around the uk in three main manufacturing facilities in llantarnam edinburgh and blackpool a chocolate refinery in moreton and a central distribution hub in liverpool . its head office is based in st albans . burton s is the uk s number two biscuit maker 1 and many of its products are sold around the world . contents 1 history 2 biscuit products 2.1 lyons 2.2 maryland 2.3 dodgers 2.4 wagon wheels 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit the first burton s biscuits were baked by george burton born 1829 leek staffordshire who began production on corporation street blackpool lancashire in north west england . the burton s biscuits firm was founded by george s grandson joseph burton in 1935 . it had a factory in slough berkshire until the early 1980s manufacturing potato crisps and snacks including potato puffs and fish n chips savoury snacks created by a mr hamer and associates . these have a cult following due to being popular with school kids in the 80s but the closure of their crisp and savoury snacks factories in the early 90s brought an end to the manufacturing . this was apparently due to falling sales . in 2014 burton s re launched their fish n chips snacks due to popular demand . the new packaging is based on the original newspaper print wrapper . in 2000 the business was sold by associated british foods to hicks muse tate & furst . 2 on 18 march 2007 burton s was acquired by duke street capital . 3 in september 2009 burton s came under the new ownership of canadian imperial bank of commerce and apollo global management with a minority stake held by duke street . in 2013 the company was put up for sale . the asking price was around 350m . 4 on 19 november 2013 it was announced that the company had been bought by the ontario teachers pension plan . in 2016 burton s sold its cadbury license to mondelez . ceo ben clarke also left the business following this deal . biscuit products edit lyons edit lyons biscuits lyons coconut delights lyons cookies lyons digestive lyons fig rolls lyons jam teacakes lyons toffypops lyons viscount maryland edit maryland cookies maryland big & chunky choc chunk and crunchy flapjack cookies maryland big & chunky choc chunk and hazelnut crunch cookies maryland big & chunky summer fruit cookies maryland snapjacks honeycomb snaps maryland snapjacks orange snaps maryland snapjacks red berry shorties maryland snapjacks vanilla shorties maryland strawberry and white choc cookies mini maryland choc chip cookies mini maryland double choc chip cookies dodgers edit jammie dodgers and mini jammie dodgers toffee dodgers choccie dodgers and mini choccie dodgers wagon wheels edit wagon wheels see also edit fox s biscuits huntley & palmers jacob fruitfield food group and jacob s tunnock s united biscuits references edit wagon wheels to roll into russia ft.com benjamin wootliff 31 oct 2000 . wagon wheels roll west as abf sells burton s . daily telegraph . duke street capital acquires burton s foods press release . duke street capital . march 18 2007 . retrieved 2007 11 05 . the daily telegraph business 29 aug 2013 online external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title burton % 27s biscuit company & oldid 741573024 categories bakeries of the united kingdomprivate equity portfolio companiescompanies based in hertfordshire navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 28 september 2016 at 10 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view