Showing posts with label Snickers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snickers. Show all posts

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Snickers Chocolate Bar - A Short History

Snickers chocolate bar is made and marketed by US based Private Corporation called Mars, Inc. It is peanut butter nougat with caramel and peanut topping and dairy milk chocolate. Snickers is a popular chocolate bar sold around the globe and its annual sales is over 2 billion dollars.

In the early 1920s, Mars Inc made a very successful chocolate bar called Milky Way. It was the most popular chocolate bar in America between 1927 and 1929. It also allowed the company to develop new recipes for chocolate candies. It took more than three years to develop Snickers and was released in the market in 1930.

Snickers bar was named in the memory of a favorite horse at a farm of Mars family named Snickers. The horse sadly died couple of months before the new product was launched. The farm was named Milky Way Farm and it seemed suitable that the name of the farm should be given to the next chocolate bar.

Snickers was initially made by hand but later machines were used to increase the volumes and old way was no more practiced. During those times, the price of the first Milky Way bar was in 1920 for only 5 cents and the price of the Snickers bar was 20 cents in 1930 when it was first released.

There was not too much change in the Snickers brand during its first forty years. Mars were inspired to produce the Snickers mini candy bar in 1968 which were labeled 'fun size' and were which sold in bags having dozen or more.

Since Snickers was first introduced to the market in the 1930s, it had been known as Marathon chocolate in UK. However in the 1990s, Mars Inc consolidated branding exercise for bringing all of the corporations products under unified Mars branding that would not only be recognized locally but also globally.

The Marathon bar in line with global naming was to become Snickers. It featured the phrase 'Internationally known as Snickers' for a period of 18 months. Since then, all Marathon candy were branded Snickers in the British Isles.

There was controversy about the Snickers brand in recent years regarding advertisements perceived to be homophobic. It was notably during Super Bowl XLI when two mechanics sharing Snickers accidentally kiss when reaching the middle. It fueled protests that Mars Inc. was promoting discrimination against gay and lesbian people.

In England, there was also a similar controversy that was the result of an advertisement which featured Mr T. He was seen ridiculing a power walker and firing a rifle at his direction telling while him to do something more manly and seen eating Snickers at the same time. Protesters were annoyed on how the power walker was portrayed in an effeminate manner and Mars Limited was accused of homophobia.

Notably, the controversial ad has neither seemed to damage sales or cause any humiliation to the Mars Inc. Snickers brand has been more positively received in other parts of the world. Snickers is a major sponsor of surfing in Australia while it is known in Latin America for supporting youth activities. Snickers chocolate bars have become an important brand of Mars Inc and its sales have continued to increase.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

A brief history of chocolate Twix and Snickers Bar

Twix and Snickers chocolate are both known around the world. Twix is a covered butter cookies covered with a thick layer of caramel and whole milk dairy chocolate bars, and a Snickers candy bar with peanut butter and caramel topping chocolate-milk dairy.

Twix was from Mars UK Limited, established in 1967, and Snickers is a product of the U.S. Private Corporation - Mars, Incorporated, which is also one of the greatest food in the world andproducers of confectionery.

Twix candy bar was packed in 1979, is available in the U.S. a gold cover with orange text, and it was like the Twix cookie bar brand. Before Snickers was created, was a chocolate bar called Milky Way very successful in the early 1920s America. That mark was the creator - Frank and Ethel Mars to expand and improve, new recipes for chocolate bars.

A period of sustained sales of Twix suggested by early 1980, Mars,Inc. with its performance, in fact, chocolate was not so well on stage to detail and the hunt for a replacement or improvement, which in 1983 was as happy with the peanut butter Twix. There were very little changed in the production of the Snickers brand first forty years, except 1968, when Mars was inspired by his "produce the mini size Snickers candy bar sold in packages labeled with a dozen fun."

Snickers brand has caused a controversy inIn recent years, are perceived homophobic advertising, which saw a two mechanics accidentally kiss common Snickers and when you reach the center. The last great controversy in connection with the brand Twix occurred in 2007 when Mars Inc. began in Europe, instead of animal rennet whey used in their chocolate bars with. This has led to large protests and negative publicity in the press against Mars, Inc. of vegetarians, was previously loyal to Mars Confectionery, becauseVegetarians.

Twix brands has also been revised, to compete in the areas of ice frozen to room with Twix bars, making their way to the supermarket and shopping center ice Iceman. Snickers Bar was also introduced their branded products, including Snickers Ice Cream. All these products have been well received in time, which is in production and continued or withdrawn after the promotion ends.

Revenue Twix and Snickers chocolate increased their brand outside traditionalMarkets and have been very successful in all parts of the world.

Twix, Snickers chocolate bars have a successful product in their history, and sales have continued to increase and have become popular brands for their producers.