Ferrero SpA is an
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
manufacturer of
chocolateChocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC...
and other confectionery products, founded by confectioner
Pietro FerreroPietro Ferrero is the founder, chairman, and co-CEO of Ferrero SpA, an Italian confectionary company....
in 1946 and based in
Pino TorinesePino Torinese is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 6 km southeast of Turin...
,
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. The company is still owned by the Ferrero family. The Ferrero company was founded by producing the world known Kinder Chocolates in Belgium. This was because the founder of Ferrero moved to Belgium during WWII. Reputation Institute's 2009 survey ranks Ferrero as the most reputable company in the world.
In 1946 Pietro Ferrero invented a cream of
hazelnutA hazelnut is the nut of the hazel and is also known as a cob nut or filbert nut according to species. A cob is roughly spherical to oval, about 15-25 mm long and 10-15 mm in diameter, with an outer fibrous husk surrounding a smooth shell. A filbert is more elongated, being about twice as long as...
s and
cocoaCocoa is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree, from which chocolate is made. "Cocoa" can often also refer to the drink commonly known as hot chocolate; to cocoa powder, the dry powder made by grinding cocoa seeds and removing the cocoa butter from the dark, bitter cocoa...
, meant to be spread on bread, and called it
Pasta Gianduja.
Ferrero SpA is an
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
manufacturer of
chocolateChocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC...
and other confectionery products, founded by confectioner
Pietro FerreroPietro Ferrero is the founder, chairman, and co-CEO of Ferrero SpA, an Italian confectionary company....
in 1946 and based in
Pino TorinesePino Torinese is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 6 km southeast of Turin...
,
ItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
. The company is still owned by the Ferrero family. The Ferrero company was founded by producing the world known Kinder Chocolates in Belgium. This was because the founder of Ferrero moved to Belgium during WWII. Reputation Institute's 2009 survey ranks Ferrero as the most reputable company in the world.
History
In 1946 Pietro Ferrero invented a cream of
hazelnutA hazelnut is the nut of the hazel and is also known as a cob nut or filbert nut according to species. A cob is roughly spherical to oval, about 15-25 mm long and 10-15 mm in diameter, with an outer fibrous husk surrounding a smooth shell. A filbert is more elongated, being about twice as long as...
s and
cocoaCocoa is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree, from which chocolate is made. "Cocoa" can often also refer to the drink commonly known as hot chocolate; to cocoa powder, the dry powder made by grinding cocoa seeds and removing the cocoa butter from the dark, bitter cocoa...
, meant to be spread on bread, and called it
Pasta Gianduja. The product had a great success and therefore Ferrero created the new company to produce and market it. A similar product, sold under the name
NutellaNutella is the brand name of a hazelnut-based sweet spread registered by the Italian company Ferrero at the end of 1963. The recipe was developed from an earlier Ferrero's spread released in 1949. Nutella is now marketed in over 75 countries across the globe....
since 1964, became popular around the world.
Products
In addition to Nutella, Ferrero produces many other products, including the chocolates
Ferrero RocherFerrero Rocher is a spherical chocolate sweet made by Italian chocolatier Ferrero SpA, the producer of Tic Tac and Nutella. The sweets consist of a whole roasted hazelnut encased in a thin wafer shell filled with hazelnut cream and covered in milk chocolate and chopped hazelnuts and walnuts...
,
Pocket CoffeePocket Coffee is an internationally known brand name of the Ferrero company for a chocolate confectionery.Pocket Coffee candies are individually-wrapped praline and consist of Italian liquid espresso encased in a shell of semi-sweet milk chocolate....
,
Mon ChériMon Chéri is an internationally known brand name of the Italian Ferrero company for a chocolate confectionery.The Mon Chéri is a single-wrapped combination, consisting of a "heart" of cherry, floating in a special liqueur and contained in a plain chocolate housing.Mon Chéri actually comes from...
, Giotto,
Confetteria RaffaelloConfetteria Raffaello is a sweet manufactured by Italian company Ferrero SpA. It consists of an almond surrounded by a soft cream, wrapped in a coconut wafer shell and coated in coconut. The sweet has a similar look to the Ferrero Rocher chocolate made by the same company. They are usually sold in...
coconut cream candy, and the
tic tacTic Tac is a brand of small, hard sweets manufactured by the Italian confectioner Ferrero. The individual pieces are commonly called Tic Tacs themselves....
breath mints. A dark chocolate version of the Ferrero Rocher is also available, called the Ferrero Rondnoir, which contains a pearl of dark chocolate in the center instead of a hazelnut, chocolate cream instead of Nutella and cruchy chocolate bits instead of crushed hazelnuts. There is also a coconut version, Confetteria Raffaello, which contains milk cream surrounding an almond and covered with meringue and shredded coconut. The Ferrero Prestige collection is a set of three: Rocher, Rondnoir, and a coconut version called Garden Coco. The Garden Coco candy is similar to Confetteria Raffaello, but has coconut cream instead of milk cream.
Ferrero also produces the
Kinder product series, including
Kinder SurpriseKinder Surprise , also known as a Kinder Egg , is a confection manufactured by Italian company Ferrero...
(also known as "Kinder Eggs"), Fiesta Ferrero,
Kinder ChocolateKinder Chocolate is a confectionery product of the Italian chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA; it is known in Germany as Kinderschokolade. The German offspring of Ferrero SpA, Ferrero oHG mbH, also formerly known as Assia GmbH, founded in 1956, introduced Kinderschokolade to the German market in...
bars,
Kinder Happy HippoKinder Happy Hippo is a cookie/candy made by Ferrero SpA, the same company that makes Nutella, Kinder Surprise and Tic Tacs, among other candies.- Taste :...
, Kinder Maxi, Kinder Délice and
Kinder BuenoKinder Bueno is a chocolate bar from Ferrero. It is a hazelnut cream filled wafer with a chocolate covering. Kinder Bueno originally comes from Germany, where it was first released in 1990...
.
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