OLD NEWS but worth leaving here:
This sucks so godawful bad. No more Tim Tams. G'day, mate my arse.
In late 2019 a private equity firm named Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) acquired Arnott's, the Australian company that has made Tim Tam chocolate cookies since 1964.
Prior
to this Arnott's was owned by the Campbell Soup company here in the U.
S. It is very common for successful Australian companies to be bought by
bigger American companies giving them lines of credit, tech,
manufacturing, marketing, and management resources.
Holden automobiles = General Motors
Smith chips = Frito-Lay
Network Ten = CBS
Woolworth's = Safeway
etc.
Campbells spun-off Arnott's to KKR.
Private
equity firms are notorious for sucking their acquisitions dry of cash,
then selling off the company and leaving the employees to fend for
themselves.
So, what's new at Arnott's?
All exporting of products (including Tim Tams) has ended. Everywhere, including the U. S.
Arnott's,
under direction of their corporate overlords, are now issuing
complaints to the two biggest supermarket chains in Australia,
Woolworth's and Coles, that they are being charged too much for shelf
space in their stores. So, watch the big Tim Tam end caps in the
cookie/biscuit isle like we saw at a Woolies in Melbourne to come to an
end.
Tim
Tams can be ordered from foreign third party sellers on Amazon. The
prices are ridiculous and customer reviews report receiving damaged,
melted goop. A risky option.
I
have received email replies on this matter from Arnott's (who were
reluctant to say much), World Market (probably the most reliable U. S.
retailer for Tim Tams), and Keebler, who were the U. S. distributor
(owned by Campbell's).
For me, this means no more Tim Tams, especially during the AFL Grand Final in September.
Even Boris Johnson loves Tim Tams
Chronology of Arnott's takeover
another change of ownership
Update on September 8, 2021: All indications are that World Market stores in the U.S. are again well-stocked with original milk chocolate Tim Tams: https://www.worldmarket.com/search?q=Tim+Tam&search-button=&lang=en_US
On Sunday, June 1, 2008, a fire erupted at the tape vault at Universal Studios in Hollywood. Universal's record division was on its way to becoming the largest record label in the U.S. Universal was already a huge and storied record company dating back to 78rpm records, released under brand names Decca, Coral, Brunswick, Vocalion, Kapp, Uni, & MCA. Add to that the numerous labels that Universal had acquired like Chess and ABC (ABC itself had acquired several great vintage r&b labels before leaving the record business in 1979, all of which was acquired by Universal.). News of the fire in 2008 was brief, short on detail, and quickly removed from the news cycle. 
In 2019, eleven years after the fire, the New York Times Magazine published a heartbreaking article about what was thought to have been destroyed. To record collections and fans of vintage rock 'n' roll and rhythm 'n' blues, the initial news in 2008 and the Times article was nearly as shocking as the bombing of Japan in World War 2. 
On August 9, 2023, a website called Tracking Angle posted a video on YouTube nearly one hour and forty-five minutes in length of a tour of Universal Record's tape vault near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The startling point made in this video and the accompanying article is that the warehouse that caught fire was in the process of being emptied and its contents being transferred to Pittsburgh. Further, the author asserts that among those master tapes lost in the fire, first generation copies of many were safely stored by Universal Music at facilities elsewhere, such as Germany. Earlier reports suggested there were no duplicates anywhere, which I doubted, considering how many reissues and compilation albums by vintage artists are released in the European countries and Great Britain. 
So, if you are interested in this process of reissuing vintage recordings on CDs and records (physical formats), I am sharing links to the video and relevant articles.
