Three generations of the Bristow family have made this small Devon business a sweet success. Its origins are Victorian but Bristow’s of Devon opened its factory in the mid-Devon town of Crediton in 1932. The confectionery-makers specialise in chocolate, clotted cream toffee and fudge playing to the area’s strengths as a dairy farming community. The factory at its height employed several hundred people before enduring buyouts and takeovers. David Mudd reports.