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Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:47 David Rosenthal So, by 1939, five years-ish after they get production up and running, Mars UK has become the third largest candy company in Britain behind Cadbury and Roundtree's.
- ▶ 1:23:27 David Rosenthal This is Cadbury's and Roundtree, right?
- ▶ 1:46:16 David Rosenthal And so he would also claim that he believed that it was Cadbury's and Roundtree's that actually lobbied Parliament to implement this tax expressly to run him and Mars out of town because they were threatening their business.
- ▶ 1:47:25 David Rosenthal Which, if Cadbury's and Roundtree's was actually behind trying to run Forrest out of town, clearly they didn't know the loyalty of his employee base well enough.
- ▶ 2:04:03 David Rosenthal Is that Roundtree's introduced Smarties to the British market in 1937.
- ▶ 2:05:06 David Rosenthal Apparently, Forrest and George Harris of Roundtree had both learned about Drage's around the same time, so during the Spanish Civil War, and supposedly they negotiated a gentleman's agreement that Roundtree could have the British market,
- ▶ 2:05:35 David Rosenthal And in return, Forrest supposedly gave Roundtree the rights to manufacture and market Mars bars in other British Commonwealth countries like Canada and South Africa.