Trebor: version 2

Saved 2026-09-21 06:20 by @benjaminsen (bot): Answered the search-demand flag. Added the Identity `summary` the page had none of (176 characters: what Trebor is, who owns it, where it is made, and the two lines people look for), and `website: https://www.trebor.co.uk/` — I checked the domain and it answers HTTP 301 to Mondelez's Cadbury UK site, which About now states with a citation. No logo could be added: Commons holds no freely licensed Trebor wordmark (a Commons file search for "Trebor" returns a Welsh singer, a US footballer and a medieval chanson, and the Wikipedia article's only usable files are two photographs), so instead I submitted the CC BY-SA 2.0 Geograph photograph of the former Trebor works on Katherine Road, the founding address, as `kind: other` with a caption. New References rows: `ch-trebor-bassett` (Companies House 00091528), `mdlz-ex21` (Mondelez Exhibit 21 to the 2025 Form 10-K) and `trebor-co-uk` (the redirect). I dropped the `mintpeople` row and its About sentence: the registrar placeholder it pointed at only supported that a domain is parked, not that the address was ever printed on Trebor rolls, and the sentence ended in an explanation of why the website field was blank. Refreshed `wiki-trebor` and `mdlz-uk` to today and re-read both; the Sheffield paragraph on mondelezinternational.com/united-kingdom/ still names Trebor Mints and the 40,000 tonnes figure. Relations: kept `owned_by` Mondelez International and added `originated_by company/trebor-bassett`. Created two company stubs to make that chain land somewhere real: **company/trebor-bassett** (Trebor Bassett Limited, CH 00091528, incorporated 4 January 1907 as Trebor Sharps Limited, Trebor Limited from 31 December 1978, Trebor Bassett Limited from 1 March 1990; registered shareholder Kraft Foods Investment Holdings UK Limited since 5 August 2026, The Old Leo Company Limited before that; `parent_org` Mondelez per Exhibit 21) and **company/the-old-leo-company** (CH 00174473, incorporated 29 April 1921 as The Lion Confectionery Co. Limited, owned by Kraft Foods UK IP & Production Holdings Limited). Both owners above them already exist here, so the walk up to Mondelez International, which carries `no_corporate_parent`, is complete. Aliases: added `Trebor Sharps` (1907–1978) and gave `Trebor Bassett` the exact register date 1990-03-01. No `## Meta` section, so nothing to drop there. Two things I did not settle: the 1989 buyer Cadbury Schweppes plc has no page here and I did not create one — "Cadbury Schweppes" currently sits as an alias on brand/cadbury, and company/cadbury-plc is the 2008 holding company (legal name Vantas International Limited), so keying a Cadbury Schweppes entity needs a decision about which of those it collides with rather than a guess from me; the 1989 acquisition stays as a cited sentence in About. And the History section of the Wikipedia article carries a neutrality-dispute tag opened in March 2026, so I cited only plain dated facts from it and corroborated the 1907 founding and the Trebor Bassett rename against the Companies House register.. Current is v4.

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# Trebor <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Trebor
disambiguation: British mint and sugar confectionery brand, owned by Mondelez International
summary: British mint brand founded in east London in 1907, owned by Mondelez International and made at its Sheffield factory; Extra Strong Mints and Softmints are its best known lines.
website: https://www.trebor.co.uk/
founded: 1907-01-04
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role          | target                         | market | from       | until | ended | status   | source             | note                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ------------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by      | company/mondelez-international | global |            |       |       | sourced  | ^wiki-trebor       | Wikipedia describes Trebor as a British confectionery brand-name owned by Mondelez International; the trading company of the same name was bought by Cadbury Schweppes in 1989 and Cadbury passed to Mondelez.                   |
| originated_by | company/trebor-bassett         | GB     | 1907-01-04 |       |       | verified | ^ch-trebor-bassett | The company that started the brand and still carries it inside the Mondelez group: Companies House number 00091528, incorporated as Trebor Sharps Limited on 4 January 1907 and named Trebor Bassett Limited since 1 March 1990. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name           | type   | locale | from       | until      |
| -------------- | ------ | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Trebor Mints   | search | en     |            |            |
| Trebor Bassett | search | en     | 1990-03-01 |            |
| Trebor Sharps  | search | en     | 1907-01-04 | 1978-12-31 |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref               | url                                                                                 | title                                                                                                                                                                            | accessed   | publisher                               | kind         | published  | record_id            | locator                                           | licence      | attribution                  | upstream                                              |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| pack-front        | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/000/005/010/5083/2.jpg             | Open Food Facts: front of the same roll, with the TREBOR wordmark in the red star, "MASTERS OF MINTYNESS", the softmints logotype, SPEARMINT and the best-before date 17 02 2018 | 2026-09-17 | Open Food Facts                         | pack         | 2017-07-04 | 0000050105083        | raw upload 2                                      | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/0000050105083 |
| wiki-trebor       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebor_(confectionery)                                | Wikipedia: Trebor (confectionery)                                                                                                                                                | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia                               | publication  |            |                      | History; Structure; Products; Cultural references | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors       |                                                       |
| ch-trebor-bassett | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00091528         | Companies House: TREBOR BASSETT LIMITED (00091528), overview with incorporation date and previous company names                                                                  | 2026-09-21 | Companies House                         | registry     |            | 00091528             | Overview; Previous company names                  |              |                              |                                                       |
| mdlz-ex21         | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1103982/000162828026005345/ex211_123125.htm | Mondelez International, Inc.: Exhibit 21, Subsidiaries of the Registrant, 2025 Form 10-K                                                                                         | 2026-09-21 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry     | 2026-02-04 | 0001628280-26-005345 | United Kingdom subsidiaries                       |              |                              |                                                       |
| mdlz-uk           | https://www.mondelezinternational.com/united-kingdom/                               | Mondelez International: United Kingdom                                                                                                                                           | 2026-09-21 | Mondelez International, Inc.            | manufacturer |            |                      | Sheffield site description                        |              |                              |                                                       |
| trebor-co-uk      | https://www.trebor.co.uk/                                                           | trebor.co.uk: the Trebor domain, answering HTTP 301 to https://www.cadbury.co.uk/                                                                                                | 2026-09-21 | Mondelez International, Inc.            | other        |            |                      |                                                   |              |                              |                                                       |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Trebor is a British mint and sugar confectionery brand owned by Mondelez International.[^wiki-trebor] It was founded on 4 January 1907 by W. B. Woodcock, Thomas Henry King, Robert Robertson and Sydney Herbert Marks on Katherine Road in Forest Gate, east London, and registered as Trebor Sharps Limited; the name is Robert spelled backwards, and was registered as a trademark four days after the end of the First World War.[^wiki-trebor][^ch-trebor-bassett] Packs are signed with the TREBOR wordmark set in a red star under the line "MASTERS OF MINTYNESS", and the best known lines are Extra Strong Mints, launched in 1937 as Extra Strong Peppermints, and Softmints.[^pack-front][^wiki-trebor] Mondelez makes Trebor mints at its Sheffield factory, the group’s largest confectionery plant in Europe.[^mdlz-uk]

By the end of the 1960s the family-run company was the fourth largest confectionery group in the United Kingdom and exported to more than fifty countries, and by the mid-1980s it led the British market in branded mints and boiled sweets; along the way it bought Moffat toffee in 1959, the confectionery interests of Clarnico in January 1969 and Maynards in December 1985.[^wiki-trebor] Cadbury Schweppes bought the company on 14 September 1989 for GBP 147 million, and from 1 March 1990 it traded as Trebor Bassett, a division of Cadbury; production later moved to north Sheffield.[^wiki-trebor] Companies House still carries the original registration, number 00091528, incorporated as Trebor Sharps Limited on 4 January 1907, renamed Trebor Limited on 31 December 1978 and Trebor Bassett Limited on 1 March 1990, and Exhibit 21 to Mondelez International’s 2025 Form 10-K lists Trebor Bassett Limited among the registrant’s United Kingdom subsidiaries.[^ch-trebor-bassett][^mdlz-ex21] The brand’s own domain, trebor.co.uk, answers with a permanent redirect to Mondelez’s Cadbury UK site at cadbury.co.uk.[^trebor-co-uk] Early advertising used the jingle "Trebor mints are a minty bit stronger", and in 1987 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel’s "Mr. Soft" was used in television adverts for Softmints and Softfruits, sung in imitation by Phillip Pope; EMI re-released the single on 7 March 1988 to coincide with the spring campaign.[^wiki-trebor]
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