Bennison Osborne invented Weet-Bix in Sydney, Australia in the mid-1920s. Osborne wanted to create a breakfast cereal that was more appealing than Granose, another biscuit made by the Sanitarium Health Food Company.
The first Weet-Bix factory operated by “Grain Products Limited” opened in Leichhardt in 1926. Osborne’s friend Malcolm Macfarlane helped with marketing. The Sanitarium Health Food Company bought the Weet-Bix business in 1928.
Osborne and Macfarlane went to South Africa and started a new company called The British and African Cereal Company Limited. They named their product Weetabix, which began production in England in 1932. Today, Sanitarium manufactures Weet-Bix in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Turns out, his teeth have generated a lot of online discussion and he is actually well known overseas. He is Jürgen Klopp, retired football manager of Liverpool, who had new veneers put on his teeth which look way too white and shiny.
And not the first time Fanta has had lemon either. A number of years back Fanta has a whole range of flavours in Australia that they scaled back after what appeared to be a failed experiment for CCA at the time.
Bring on Fanta Lemon No Sugar! May it work well with the Grape and Raspberry and Pineapple variants that seem to come and go like Neighbours comebacks.
Current owner Saputo says it has entered a binding agreement to sell the dairy to newly formed entity King Island Dairy 2 Pty Ltd.
The Canadian-owned dairy giant did not name those involved in the new entity but said it was being led by “two experienced Australian businessmen with supply chain and manufacturing expertise”.
According to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the entity was registered on March 3 this year, and lists Melbourne businessmen Nicholas Dobromilsky and Graeme Wilson as its directors.
