This is our new name - we used to be called Food Design – and we chose it to reflect what we do best - make the finest fudge, toffee and honeycomb to tried and tested recipes using only the very best natural ingredients.

Our fudge, toffee and honeycomb is so good that our customers come back to us time and time again looking for new flavours and textures to spice up their lives.  We are experts at what we do, after all we have been doing it since 1847!

We’re part of the Zubrance group – a £25m group of closely aligned food businesses with distinct values and a passion for customer service and innovation.  Take a look to see what these values mean to us and you.

Passion is key to everything here at Confection by Design.  Passion breathes pace and agility into our relationships with customers and suppliers and colleagues alike.  Passion inspires innovation into new products and the delivery of customer-oriented solutions.

Whether it’s organic, fair trade, kosher, nut free, we make sure our products are produced without compromise. We cut the toffee when it’s made, not the corners on the way.

We make our fudge, toffee and honeycomb in much the same way you’d make it at home. We use the finest natural ingredients, cooked in copper pans, with much of the mixing, pouring and breaking done by the skilled hands of our dedicated team.   Harrogate is famous for its toffee, and ours travels the world in exports, as far as the USA and Middle East (we’re working on the bit in between…)

At Confection by Design, we work with real pace.  Our team is flexible; big enough to deal with the toughest deadlines, small enough to care.  We build strong, trusting relationships with our customers, based on a deep, intuitive understanding of their business and requirements.  We bring pace to development, producing samples quickly from our on-site, state of the art development kitchen, bespoke to our customers’ specific requirements.

The development team love a challenge, and once they’ve cracked the flavour and application you need, we’ll transfer the process to factory tests seamlessly.  We’ll understand your supply chain logistics to make sure the products reach retailers’ shelves and consumers’ tables in perfect condition.  We’ll work to lower minimum order quantities than most of our competitors, and we’ll do it all at speed, to reduce your time to market.

We’ve been working in the confectionery industry for a long time.  Our team is uniquely experienced, having spent many years (too many to count…) working across the category in all manner of roles.  We’re close knit, united by a common purpose – to make the finest fudge, toffee and honeycomb in the business.

Knowledge is everything.  Just ask one of Europe's biggest bakery companies who needed to cut costs but not quality.  Our experience meant that we were able to re-engineer our recipe to reduce costs, yet leave the superb flavour uncompromised.

Our values are shared across the Zubrance group of companies – values that are important to us all: the passion, the pace, the energy, the commitment to deliver a solution – these are the things we look for in all of our team.   It’s what defines us, makes us different