Toblerone Milk Chocolate Bar OFFICIAL, made with Swiss Milk Chocolate, Giant, Jumbo Size, 1 bar, 4.5kg

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Theodor Tobler, Swiss World". Swissworld.org. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011 . Retrieved 11 February 2016. Toblerone ( / ˈ t oʊ b l ər oʊ n/ TOH-blər-ohn, German: [tobləˈroːnə]) is a Swiss chocolate brand [1] owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods). It is produced in Bern, Switzerland, [2] was sometimes manufactured elsewhere in the past, and is planned to be made in Slovakia from the end of 2023. Toblerone is known for its distinctive shape, a series of joined triangular prisms and lettering engraved in the chocolate.

Toblerone maintains peak performance". Confectionery Production. 26 July 2019. The product has encountered rivals during its 111 year history, including a similar Kolumbo bar in Croatia, and Swiss company Chocolate Frey's triangular Mahony bars. The Tobler company was independent for many years. In 1970, it merged with Suchard, the makers of Milka, to become Interfood. After the Tobler & Suchard merger it was decided to create a new and single source for marketing & exporting the various products manufactured by both companies worldwide, Multifood. Max E. Baumann, the son of Emil Baumann, was made director of this new division. Tobler & Suchard companies merged with the Jacobs coffee company in 1982 to create Jacobs Tobler & Suchard. Kraft Foods Inc acquired the majority of Jacobs Suchard, including Toblerone, in 1990; in 2012, it was spun off (alongside several other brands) to Mondelēz. A triangular set of residences for students of the University of Manchester on the Oxford Road, Manchester, England, built in about 1975 are known as the Toblerones. [35] [36]The Whitworth Park Residencel". Our Manchester - Manchester History Net. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014 . Retrieved 3 November 2014. In the past it was manufactured in other locations including Bedford in England, and Dundee in Scotland from the 1930s up to 1969. [23] In the 1970s and 1980s, it was manufactured under licence in Yugoslavia by Kraš in Zagreb (now in Croatia). [ citation needed] The largest-sized Toblerone in production [37] is used as a running gag in the 2017 Netflix series Neo Yokio. [38] See also [ edit ] Chrystal, Paul (2021). Rowntrees: The Early History. Pen & Sword Books. p.62. ISBN 9781526778925. Prudently, Theodor Tobler and his then company, Tobler AG, applied for a patent in 1909 in Bern to cover the manufacture and shape of the bar, and Toblerone thus became the first patented milk chocolate bar. The official who gave the authorising singature was one Albert Einstein who was working in the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property in Bern at the time. Koltrowitz, Silke (23 June 2022). "Toblerone loses Swiss exclusivity as production shifts east". Reuters.

Meo, Carlo (2012). Design marketing. Innovare cambiando i significati del consumo (in Italian). Milan: Gruppo 24 Ore. p.53. ISBN 9788863454413. Nasce così una delle aziende che hanno fatto la storia e la fortuna del cioccolato [...] le leggendarie Branches (1904)[Thus was born one of the companies that made the history and fortune of chocolate [...] the legendary Branches (1904)]A similar product is the Croatian product Kolumbo, made by factory Kraš from Zagreb. This chocolate is also composed of pyramids of hazelnuts and honey. Kraš was producing Toblerone under licence during the 1970s and 1980s. [ citation needed]