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Manufactures of Quality Confectionary Since 1922 |
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Cavalier Candies Ltd. |
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About Us |
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Celebrating our 83rd year of business!
FRUIT SLICES
Cavalier fruit slices have a long and proud tradition in our company, throughout Canada and the United States. The product dates back to 1922 when two Englishmen, George Bond and Ronald Samuel started a confectionery manufacturing company in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada called Bond and Ronald. The company manufactured sugar confectionery items and some chocolate specialties. For many years, the firm remained small and localized to the Manitoba market. Fruit slices were originally made from imported Agar seaweed strips which were cut, soaked overnight and then used to produce jelly in eighty pound batches. The jelly was cooked in an open gas-fired cooker and allowed to cool at ambient room temperature. The manufacturing process was slow and very labour-intensive. However, as Agar was and still remains one of the very best natural gelling agents to bring out true fruit flavour in jelly, our fruit slices always proved to be a popular item in the company's product line.
In 1957, Charles Fletcher bought the company and expanded operations. The fruit slice products were expanded, new packaging was developed and the product marketed throughout Canada. Fruit slices quickly became listed in grocery stores, department stores, and mass merchandise stores throughout Canada. In 1967, Mr. Fletcher split the growing company into two separate entities; Cavalier Candies Ltd., to concentrate on the manufacturing of sugar confectionery and Cavalier Foods Ltd. (formally Bond Foods Ltd.), to concentrate on imported confectionery products. In 1970's, flow wrapping of the fruit slices was introduced and the “Pizazz®" individually wrapped bulk line was developed.
In 1986, Walter Fletcher entered the family business and expanded operations further, including the Pizazz® fruit slice line. Many of the fruit slice products' labour-intensive functions were mechanized and automated. Today, Cavalier Candies Ltd. is Western Canada's largest sugar confectionery manufacturer. All recipes are stored in modern, computer-controlled cookers which load ingredients automatically, ensuring consistently produced jelly products throughout every shift. The cooked jelly is discharged automatically into a fully automated jelly mixing system which adds in the exact amount of color, flavour, citric acid, and any fruit juice specified in the recipe. The prepared jelly mass is then deposited into moulds, cooled and automatically discharged through custom-designed proprietary demoulding equipment. The jelly is then cured, cut, dried, and packaged into its various consumer-ready formats. Cavalier uses fully automated flow wrapping equipment which has been specifically engineered in Europe for the Pizazz® product line. Cavalier is today the largest manufacturer of Agar Fruit Slices in North America.
Besides modern, high-speed equipment, Cavalier ensures that its employees and production processes are always up to the latest standards. All key employees are provincially certified "Food Handlers" and the company adheres closely to "Good Manufacturing Practices"(GMP) guidelines for the food industry. In addition, Cavalier has adopted Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) food manufacturing and handling guideline to ensure only the finest products are shipped to its customers worldwide.
To ensure a quality finished product, Cavalier uses only the finest ingredients in the manufacture of its fruit slices. Quality ingredients have been carefully selected over the years and, where possible, only natural colors, flavours and other ingredients are used. Cavalier fruit jelly slices are certified Kosher throughout the year and are annually certified “Kosher for Passover" under the careful supervision of Rabbi Babad from Congregation Tartikov, Brooklyn, NY.
Cavalier markets and ships its Pizazz® fruit slice products to customers throughout Canada, the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia.
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