Perfetti Van Melle
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| Type |
Naamloze vennootschap/ Public limited company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Confectionary |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder(s) | Merger |
| Headquarters | Lainate, Italy |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Confectionary |
| Website | www.perfettivanmelle.com |
Perfetti Van Melle is a privately held Italian global manufacturer of confectionery and gum. It was formed in 2001 with the acquisition of Van Melle of the Netherlands, by the Perfetti group of Italy and having its corporate headquarters in Lainate (Milan), Italy. Perfetti Van Melle bills itself as the third largest confectionery manufacturer in the world after Kraft Foods (owners of Cadbury) and Mars, Incorporated (owners of Wrigley). It employs 17,000 people via 30 subsidiary companies and distributes its products in over 130 countries.
The company owns a major subsidiary in the United States, (Perfetti Van Melle USA), as well as several others in large markets around the world.
Mentos sugar free (a no sugar mentos) manufactured by Perfetti Van Melle
Products
Some of the brands are:
- Mentos mints and various fruit flavoured chewy sweets
- Mentos 3 gum and Pure Fresh Chewing Gum
- AirHeads fruit chews
- Frisk mints
- Fruittella chews
- Fruittella Pixels, UFOs & crunchies
- Vigorsol gum
- Vivident gum
- Chlormint gum
- Happydent mint gum
- Golia liquorice gummy candy
- Alpenliebe caramel chews
- Big Babol gum
- Centre Shock
- Meller caramel chews
- Meller milk chews
- Brooklyn Chewing Gum
- Center Fresh gum in India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia
- Chupa Chups[1]
- Smint
- Filly Folly
See also
References
- ↑ "Perfetti Van Melle agrees to buy Spain's Chupa Chups for undisclosed sum". Forbes. 2006-07-03.
External links
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