In anticipation of Inside the Christmas Factory, which airs tonight at 9pm on BBC2, here are a few facts you might not have known about the Nestle Factory in Halifax.
John and Violet Mackintosh created a hard toffee and caramel sweet and built the worlds first toffee factory in 1898. Son Harold later took inspiration to make Quality Streets.
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Harold saw that chocolates were an exotic purchase reserved for the wealthy and set about coating the toffee in chocolate so working families could enjoy a little luxury.
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12.5 million individual Quality Street sweets are made every day in the same Halifax factory as 80 years ago. At peak season it produces two million tins of festive chocolates.
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The Halifax Nestle factory produced 11 million Easter eggs in 2017. Production starts in September. From chocolate delivery in the pipes to the final packaging each egg takes an hour.
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