In 1927 the MacDonald family also started making sweets in Bents Green, Sheffield and sold their popular fruit sweets throughout Yorkshire too. Maxons (Mac and sons) grew for its Yorkshire Mixture, Pear Drops, Winter Mixture and its variety of old fashioned boiled sweets. Ralph Pitchfork, meanwhile, was growing his own firm, Ralph Pitchfork ltd, which was a wholesale confectioner stocking all the confectionery products. The traditions of Henry Dixon and his belief in quality of ingredients and quality of finished product is still the key to everything that is made at Maxons.