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'''Fox's Glacier Mints''' are a brand of [[candy|boiled]] [[Mint (candy)|mint]] sold in the [[UK]] since 1918 and now manufactured by [[Valeo Confectionery]].<ref name="BBC">{{cite web |title=New owners at former Leicester Fox's Mints factory |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-55188646 |website=[[BBC]] |access-date=16 June 2021 |date=13 December 2020}}</ref>

==History==
===Background===
Walter Richard Fox, the founder of [[Fox's Confectionery]], originally manufactured sweets as part of the Joyce and Fox partnership, but this was dissolved in 1897. Fox continued to make confectionery, and was joined in 1914 by his son Eric.<ref name="Opie">{{Cite book|last=Opie|first=Robert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbgQJQ9cKYAC&dq=fox+and+joyce+mint+sweets&pg=PA79|title=Sweet Memories|date=2008-04-21|publisher=Pavilion Books|isbn=978-1-905400-62-1|language=en}}</ref>

===Product creation and development===
Glacier Mints were first created in 1918 by Eric Fox.<ref name="BBC" /><ref>{{cite web |author1=Emily Gosden |title=Glacier mint factory melts into history |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/glacier-mint-factory-melts-into-history-qmz0h6gkb |website=[[The Times]] |access-date=16 June 2021 |date=1 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="LL">{{cite web |author1=Tom Pegden |title=The story of Fox's Glacier Mints in Leicester |url=https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/business/story-foxs-glacier-mints-leicester-2595005 |website=[[Leicester Mercury]] |access-date=16 June 2021 |date=28 February 2019}}</ref> To begin with, they were called Acme Clear Mint Fingers,<ref name="H50" /> but this was changed to Glacier Mints in 1919, apparently on the advice of Eric Fox's wife.<ref name="Opie" /><ref name="LL" /> From 1928, the mints have been individually wrapped.<ref name="H50">{{cite book |last1=Berry |first1=Steve |last2=Norman |first2=Phil |title=A History of Sweets in 50 Wrappers |date=2014 |publisher=[[The Friday Project]] |location=London |isbn=9780007575480 |pages=44–45}}</ref>

Since 1922 the mints have been branded with [[Peppy the polar bear]],<ref name="FOX">{{cite web |title=The Fox's Glacier Family |url=http://www.foxs.co.uk/foxsrange.php |website=[[Fox's Confectionery]] |access-date=2 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070915075315/http://www.foxs.co.uk/foxsrange.php |archive-date=15 September 2007}}</ref> who was designed by [[Clarence Reginald Dalby]].<ref name="LL" /><ref name="LL2">{{cite web |author1=Maia Snow |title=What happened to Peppy the Fox's Glacier Mint polar bear? |url=https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/what-happened-peppy-foxs-glacier-2595309 |website=[[Leicester Mercury]] |access-date=16 June 2021 |date=28 February 2019}}</ref> As part of an advertising campaign. Fox's commissioned a [[taxidermist]] to shoot and stuff a real polar bear for display purposes; the stuffed bear was shown at public events until in 1969, upon Fox's acquisition by [[Rowntree's]], it was retired and replaced by a cartoon.<ref name="LL2" /> Peppy is typically depicted as though standing on one of the mints.<ref name="LL" /> Glacier Mints resemble miniature blocks of ice and are clear and [[translucent]]. Companion products are Fox's Glacier Fruits (launched 1956) and Fox's Glacier Dark (launched 2002).<ref name="FOX" />

The mint's centenary year in 2018 was marked with the release of two new products: [[spearmint]]-flavour mints and a selection of fruit flavoured sweets as part of a tropical selection.<ref name="LL" />

==References==
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==External links==
*https://valeoconfectionery.com/foxs

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