2007

Charles Trinder

Charles Trinder

Charles was born in Brighton, England on February 26, 1943. He has four grown children, Ben, Catherine, Carmen and Jordan, and in 2003 he married Brenda at First United Methodist Church in Florida. He entered the industry as a sales representative for Cadbury Schweppes in 1963 and worked his way up to national sales manager […]

Leo Hirshfield

Leo Hirshfield

Leo Hirshfield, the founder of Tootsie Roll Industries, migrated from Austria and introduced Tootsie Rolls to the candy industry on February 23, 1896 from a small store in Brooklyn, NY. He named the candy after his daughter, Clara, whose nickname was Tootsie, and Leo was the first to individually wrap the candies. This novel idea […]

Joseph Fry

Joseph Fry

Joseph was born in Birmingham, England in 1728. He was an apprentice to Dr. Henry Portsmouth, who trained Joseph extensively in the medical properties of herbs, plants and compound drugs. Qualifying as a physician, he set up his own apothecary store in Bristol in 1748, where strongly believing in the health qualities of cocoa powder, […]