Smarties
Smarties are dragée chocolate confections marketed by Swiss company Nestlé. They were first manufactured in 1937 by British company H.I. Rowntree & Company of York. Since 2007, Smarties have been produced in Hamburg, Germany.
Key facts
- Brand.name
- Smarties
- Brand.logo
- Nestle smarties logo.png
- Brand.logo_size
- 200
- Brand.image
- Smarties-UK-Candies (cropped).jpg
- Brand.introduced
- (as Chocolate Beans)
- Brand.origin
- United Kingdom
- Brand.markets
- Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Middle East, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea
- Brand.currentowner
- Nestlé
- Brand.previousowners
- Rowntree's
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.nestle.com/brands/allbrands/smarties
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- History
- Colours and flavours
- See also
- References
- External links
Smarties are dragée chocolate confections marketed by Swiss company Nestlé. They were first manufactured in 1937 by British company H.I. Rowntree & Company of York. Since 2007, Smarties have been produced in Hamburg, Germany.
Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about and a major axis of about . They come in eight colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, pink and brown. Blue Smarties were temporarily replaced by white ones in 2005, due to concerns about the safety of the synthetic dyes in food.