McCowans

Andrew McCowan was born on a farm only 4 miles from Crieff in Perthshire at the end of the 1800’s. At the ripe old age of seventeen he moved to the lowlands to find his fortune. His first job was as a lemonade delivery boy, he quickly realised that he could earn a little extra cash by selling sweets into the shops as he went around with the lemonade. It was only a small step from this to owning his own shop in Stenhousemuir just beside Falkirk. By the start of the first world war he had started manufacturing his own Tablet over an old coke burner. By 1920 he also made Rock, Snowballs, lollypops and macaroon, and in 1922 he moved into the current premises. During the depression Andrew realised that he had to find another market so he struck upon the idea of small, cheap, toffee chews, McCowan’s World Famous Highland Toffee was launched. McCowan’s is still manufactured in Stenhousemuire, and is Scottish Owned and run.