In exchange for a stake in the business, Carr gave the company 10 acres (4.0 ha) of market gardens he had recently bought on Clements Road and Drummond Road, Bermondsey. In 1865 Peek agreed with Carr that the business needed bigger premises.
The consequential consumer demands of emigrating French expatriate soldiers, allowed the company to start exporting directly to Ontario, Canada from the mid-1870s. After hostilities ended, the French Government ordered a further 16,000 long tons (16,000 t)/11 million sweet Pearl biscuits in celebration of the end of the Siege of Paris, and further flour supplies for Paris in 18, with financing undertaken by their bankers the Rothschilds. įrom 1861, the company started exporting biscuits to Australia, but outgrew their premises from 1870 after agreeing to fulfil an order from the French Army for 460 long tons (470 t) of biscuits for the ration packs supplied to soldiers fighting the Franco-Prussian War. With a quickly expanding business, in 1860 Peek engaged his friend John Carr, the apprenticed son of the Carlisle-based Scottish milling and biscuit making family, Carr's. Ltd, based in a disused sugar refinery on Mill Street in Dockhead, South East The partners registered their business in 1857 as Peek, Frean & Co. One of his nieces, Hannah Peek, had recently married George Hender Frean, a miller and ship biscuit maker in Devon, so Peek wrote to Frean asking him to manage the new biscuit business. As a consequence, Peek needed someone to run the biscuit business.
After founding the business, the two sons quickly decided on a different course (one died in his early 20s the other emigrated to North America). Peek wanted them in a complementary trade and proposed that they start a biscuit business. By 1857, two of his late-teenage sons had announced that they were not going to join the family tea import business. By the 1840s, the company was importing £5M of tea per annum. In 1821 the three brothers founded a tea importation company, established as Peek Brothers and Co., in the East End of London.
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