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Weetabix Mills, Burton Latimer, Kettering. All shares in the company were specified to be under the control of the Directors, the first of whom were Bennison Osborne, Malcolm Ian Macfarlane, Alfred Richard Upton and Arthur Stanley Scrutton. For the purpose of differentiating the product from that
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Sanitarium introduced Weet-Bix™ Bites in 2012 as a bite-sized version of the popular breakfast cereal. It is a wheat-based cereal infused with fruit and honey. As of 2024, Weet-Bix Bites are available in four varieties: apricot, wild berry, honey crunch, and, most recently, coco crunch.
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