Growth of Famous English Jam Firm

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Growth Of Famous

English Jam Firm

AWAY back in 1806 a family named Chivers commenced as farmers in a small way in Histon, the centre of the Cambridgeshire farming industry. Years of farming depression changed the family’s policy and fruit-growing was undertaken. By 1873, Mr. Stephen Chivers had extended the estate to 150 acres. It was then that his son put forward the jam-making proposition. The first boil of jam was made in a barn which still stands near Chivers’ Orchard Factory.

When the coming-of-age was reached in 1894, 400 people were employed and the floor space of the factory had increased to 60,000 sq. ft., and the farm acreage to 500. From then onwards, the firm has been growing tremendously every year. In 1923 over 2,000 employees were entertained at Cambridge, to celebrate the firm’s . jubilee, and an even greater celebration was held in 1933, the year of the firm’s Diamond Jubilee.

The Orchard Factory, as the name suggests, stands in the midst of acres and acres of fruit orchards, and the fruit grown therein is taken to the factory in fresh condition, sorted and cleaned in ideal surroundings, and in a very short time is being made into one of the firm’s world-famous products. . , Messrs. Chivers, who are the largest individual firm of fruit-growers in Great Britain, now employ 3,000 workers and the acreage has extended to over 8,000. It is their particular pleasure to state that they are purveyors _of jams, canned