Terry's All Gold Milk Chocolate Box, 190g

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Either the current team will get the business to its potential in reasonably rapid fashion, or it will be a target," Mr Ackman told CNBCin August. The US company has seen a mixed performance since the spin-off from Kraft three years ago, although in August it reported improved sales and margins for the second quarter of its financial year. The firm is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year and York's Chocolate Story museum is giving the public a chance to look back at some old favourites and some of its more bizarre products. Although lozenges and pastilles fell by the wayside at Terry's in the early part of the 20th Century, the company was still producing All Gold boxes at the factory until closure in 1993. Terry's of York was set up in 1767 by partners William Bayldon and Robert Berry and began by selling lozenges, comfits and other simple sweets.

It was unclear on Tuesday how much the Terry's range is worth, but Nasdaq-listedMondelez is understood to have decided that the brand is not core to its business. UK production of the Terry's brand ended in 2005, when it shifted abroad following the closure of a factory in York. Many people will visit the exhibit to catch a glimpse of some of Terry's more rare offerings, such as the Musk Lozenges, pictured. These include opium-based throat sweets, theatre chocolates with 'rustle-free paper' and other 'tasty' treats that included ingredients such as mercury, leading to the firm producing cards warning their products were 'poison'.By the 20th Century mass production was in full flow at Terry's, with conveyor belts such as this one pictured able to send hundreds of sweets down the line to be packed away constantly.

Pictured is the packing room at the Chocolate Works in the 1930s, where dozens of women were employed to load the confectionery into their specially designed boxes and wrappers. Some products contained mercury and thus could be dangerous if consumed, meaning Terry's had to flag up to consumers just exactly what they were putting in their mouths. Using the skills he learnt as a chemist, Joseph Terry developed new lines of chocolate, confectionery, sugared sweets, candied peel, marmalade, and medicated lozenges, such as this pack of linseed, licorice and chlorodyne lozenges, pictured. Another of Terry's famous brands to last the test of time is the All Gold boxes, it's best-selling assorted chocolates. One of the more quirky moments in Terry's history were the 'poison warning cards', pictured, the firm was forced to put in with some of its sweets and lozenges following the 1908 Pure Food Act.Pictured left is a Terry's factory worker in the late 20th Century sorting through sweets to go into selection boxes. Terry's was founded in York in 1767 by William Bayldon and Robert Berry and was initially named Bayldon and Berry Confectionery. The American food giant which bought Cadbury in a controversial deal in 2010 is soliciting interest in a takeover of Terry's, one of Britain's oldest chocolate brands. Sky News has learnt that Mondelez International has hired bankers to explore a sale of number of confectionery products, including Terry's Chocolate Orange and Terry's All Gold. As well as collecting wonderful objects I have also had the opportunity to talk to so many people who worked at Terry's.

They were then joined by Joseph Terry in the 19th Century, who had experience working with sugared pastilles and pills, taking the firm in a new direction. Although the portfolio being earmarked for sale consists principally of brands in France, it also includes assets in Spain and the Netherlands, according to people familiar with the process. Jenni Shepherd, exhibition coordinator, said: 'It has been such a joy putting together the exhibition. Perhaps the most famous of Terry's products is the Chocolate Orange, first created in 1932 at the firm's factory in York. The history of UK chocolate brand Terry's will be unveiled at a new exhibition in Yorkshire until the end of the year.

Previously part of Kraft Foods, Terry's moved to the ownership of Mondelez when its former parent split into two separately traded public companies in 2012. Sales of the brand are understood to be minuscule in the context of Mondelez'sbroader confectionery portfolio, which includes Cadbury, Milka and Toblerone. Mondelez describes itself as a "global snacking powerhouse", operating in 165 countries and owning other international brands such asOreo cookies andTrident chewing gum. It has also attracted the attention of Bill Ackman, one of Wall Street's most formidable activist investors, who disclosed during the summer that he had built a 7. As well as some rare sweets and chocolates produced over the years, the exhibition also focuses on the most popular brands created by Terry's before it was bought by Kraft Foods in 1993.

The majority of workers in the factory were women, pictured here in the Chocolate Works canteen sometime in the early 20th Century. They began being produced as medicines for sore throats because the special gum used to make them was believed to be an old cough cure when mixed with rose water and sugar. These unique tales and memories are what ensures that Terry's will always have a legacy in the city of York. The iconic Chocolate Works, pictured from above, first opened in 1926 and was branded 'the home of good chocolate'.Bizarre sweets from the past 250 years will go on show alongside some modern favourites to mark the anniversary of one of Britain's biggest confectioners. The exhibiton features a look back at the history of the confectionery, including its many different versions such as white chocolate, mint flavour and the Chocolate Orange bar, pictured. It has gone on to produce iconic treats such as the Chocolate Orange, Neapolitan, Spartan and Waifa. In the 1800s packaging was a lot more practical and less flashy as the sweets were advertised for their primary use as 'throat protectors' in 'damp, foggy or cold weather'.