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Extra Strong Mints is a brand name of mints produced in the United Kingdom
| | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(July 2015) |
Extra Strong Mints is a brand name of mints produced in the United Kingdom
The brand was first made in 1935. Trebor was sold to Cadbury in 1989.
In March 1988, the brand gave a £250,000 sponsorship to the England national football team, over three years.
In April 2015, a new series of adverts for the mints (the first in over ten years) was produced by Wieden+Kennedy London.
They are produced in the north of Sheffield by Trebor, part of Cadbury. [1] Trebor makes around 35 million packs a year at Sheffield.
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