 In 1961, a new factory was designed by the famous Danish modernist architect Arne Jacobsen and consisted of a 22,000 m² factory hall and a 3,000 m² administration building on a site measuring 220,000 m².Around the time of the factory's completion in 1962, Toms acquired A/S J. Høeghs Lakrids og Sukkervarefabrikker, which shortly was renamed Pingvin Lakrids.Toms' final acquisition was that of A/S Galle & Jessen, in 1971.