1868 – Cricket club for the employees established.They kept the old factory at Dockhead still going. One of their plants there is now the Tower Bridge Business Complex. The land there before had been market gardens, 10 acres. 1866 – The company built and moved to a new factory at 100 Clements Road in Bermondsey, London.1866 – James Peek stepped down from Peek, Frean, aged 66, installing his son-in-law Thomas Stone in his place.1857 – Company founded in Dockhead, London.Still, Carr accepted the offer in 1860 and came down from Scotland to join the company in that year. Carr had apprenticed in the family business up in Scotland, but didn’t like it. Wanting the help that he had hoped for from Jame’s sons, Frean wrote to a John Carr, of the Scottish biscuit making family. James and George pressed on with the business, as trade was promising. Edward joined the church Charles went back to Devon and died there shortly after in 1860, aged 20. The sons were apparently unhappy with the arrangement. The factory was established at Dockhead, London in 1857. The business was set up with James and George as co-partners, with the two boys working under George as they were still quite young. James wrote to George, saying that he was setting up a biscuit business for his sons, but that he needed George to manage it, as he still had commitments with the tea business. James wanted, however, to get them started in a trade of some sort, so he thought of biscuits instead for them.īy this time, one of his nieces, Hannah Peek had married George Hender Frean back in Devon. The couple would have 8 children.īy 1857, two of his sons Charles (– 1860) and Edward (– 1898) did not want to get involved in the family tea business. In 1824, James married Elizabeth Masters (1799 – 1867) at St Stephens on Coleman Street, London. The company was very successful in 1865 alone, they imported over five million pounds of tea. In 1821, Richard, William and James Peek set up a tea company, called “Peek Brothers and Co”, in London. James Peek was born 8 June 1800 in Dodbrook Devon, to a relatively well-off family. Peak Freans factory, Toronto / Cooksinfo / 2018. You can go in and buy broken biscuits / cookies. In the Caribbean and Canada, as of 2019, the brand name is owned by Mondelēz International, which makes the cookies in those areas in Toronto.

In Pakistan, as of 2019, the brand is owned by the ‘English Biscuit Manufacturers’ company. In the UK, Europe and the United States, no products are made or sold under the brand name of Peek Freans as of 2019. By the 1970s, they had changed the name to Peek Freans (possibly because so many people were referring to it as Peek Frean’s anyway.) World presence today By the early 1900s they were trading as Peak Frean. The company has gone through several slight name changes over the decades. Peek Freans is a brand of cookies and biscuits that were originally English but became a familiar sight on store shelves around the world.

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