One of the leading family owned confectionery manufacturers in Britain today, Brays Sweets began manufacturing their quality handmade confectionery in 1867 in Barry, a small town on the coast of South Wales. The company in its present form was started by Vivian Bray who incorporated it into a limited company in 1952.

The present Managing Director, Stephen Bray, can trace the art of sweet making back to his great, great, grandfather. It is told that he sold a recipe for toffee to a man called Macintosh...

In 1967 Brays acquired the rights to one of Wales' finest peppermints Lossin Dant Welsh Mints, and in 1978 expanded again with the purchase of Franks Special Mints, another family run confectionery company.

In 1986 Conway Confectioners, a small confectionery company in Swansea, went into receivership. They were famous for their range of unwrapped boiled Sweets, especially Conway Olde Fashion Mixtures, a mix of 18 variously shaped and flavoured sweets. The Conway sugar boiler was David Ridgeway, and he agreed to start work at the Brays factory in Barry to continue the Conway label.