13 Facts About McVitie's

McVitie's is a British snack food brand owned by United Biscuits.

McVitie's moved to various sites in the city before completing the St Andrews Biscuit Works factory on Robertson Avenue in the Gorgie district in 1888.

McVitie's established one in Glasgow and two large manufacturing plants south of the border, in Heaton Chapel, Stockport, and Park Royal, London.

The best-selling biscuit manufacturer in the United Kingdom, McVitie's produces chocolate digestives, Hobnobs and Rich tea, and Jaffa Cakes .

McVitie's served an apprenticeship with a baker and in 1834 he and his father John McVitie moved to Edinburgh, where John's brother William already lived.

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McVitie's is first described as a "baker and confectioner" rather than a provision shop in 1856 at 5 Charlotte Place.

McVitie's utilised the basement area below the shop as the bakery.

McVitie's was employed as foreman of the bakery but left to set up his own bakery in Inverness but this failed and he returned to McVitie's.

Some products in the McVitie's line were rebranded McV in 2002, but this was replaced in 2005 with a restyled version of the McVitie's brand logo.

In 2009, McVitie's biscuits were voted the most popular biscuits to dunk in tea, with McVitie's chocolate digestives, Rich tea and Hobnobs ranked the country's top three favourite biscuits in 2009.

In June 2014, McVitie's announced their intention to make 157 shop floor roles redundant at their Manchester manufacturing facility.

In November 2014, United Biscuits, and hence McVitie's, became owned by Turkish company Yildiz which in 2016 merged some of its subsidiaries including United Biscuits as pladis.

McVitie's were commissioned to make a chocolate biscuit cake as a groom's cake for the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011.