Stixx

Last updated February 25, 2019

Stixx are crisp wafer sticks with candy creme filling attached to the inside and Nestlé chocolate coating attached to the outside. The brand was owned by Nestlé, who sold it to by Brynwood Partners' DeMet's Candy Company in 2008. In 2013, Brynwood sold the company to Yıldız Holding.^[1]

Confectionery Prepared foods made with a large amount of sugar or other carbohydrates

Confectionery is the art of making confections, which are food items that are rich in sugar and carbohydrates. Exact definitions are difficult. In general, though, confectionery is divided into two broad and somewhat overlapping categories, bakers' confections and sugar confections.

Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss transnational food and drink company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest food company in the world, measured by revenues and other metrics, since 2014. It ranked No. 64 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2017 and No. 33 on the 2016 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest public companies.

Chocolate is a usually sweet, brown food preparation of roasted and ground cacao seeds. It is made in the form of a liquid, paste, or in a block, or used as a flavoring ingredient in other foods. The earliest evidence of use traces to the Olmecs (Mexico), with evidence of chocolate beverages dating to 1900 BC. The majority of Mesoamerican people made chocolate beverages, including the Maya and Aztecs. Indeed, the word "chocolate" is derived from the Classical Nahuatl word chocolātl.

The following products available in the North American retail market are:

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea.

Butterfinger Stixx
Nestlé Crunch Stixx
Nestlé Crunch Dark Stixx

Butterfinger is a candy bar created in 1923 in Chicago, Illinois by Otto Schnering, which currently is manufactured by Ferrero. The bar consists of a crispy peanut butter core coated in milk chocolate. Butterfinger has become known for its marketing and a roster of spokespersons, including Bart Simpson, Top Cat, Seth Green, Erik Estrada, Rob Lowe, and Jaime Pressly.

Nestlé Crunch is the name of a chocolate bar made of milk chocolate with crisped rice mixed in, produced by Nestlé. Nestlé Crunch was first introduced to market in 1928. Its current slogan is, "Munch Now. Munch Some Later." Its competition is the Krackel bar, which was introduced by The Hershey Company in 1938.

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Baby Ruth is an American candy bar made of peanuts, caramel, and milk chocolate-flavored nougat covered in compound chocolate. Baby Ruth is currently owned by the Italian company Ferrero.

Nestlé Candy Shop is an American/British brand of confectionery owned and licensed by Swiss corporation Nestlé. The previous Wonka brand's inception comes from materials licensed from British author Roald Dahl. His classic children's novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and its film adaptations are the source of both the packaging and the marketing styles of the Wonka brand. The brand was launched on 17 May 1971, pre-dating by a month a tie-in launch coinciding with the release of the novel's first film adaptation on 30 June. In 1988 the Willy Wonka Candy Company brand – then owned by Sunmark Corporation – was acquired by Nestlé. Nestlé sold sweets and chocolate under the Willy Wonka brand name in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic and the Middle East.

Coffee Crisp is a chocolate bar made in Canada. It consists of alternating layers of vanilla wafer and a foamed coffee-flavoured soft candy, covered with a milk chocolate outer layer. It is marketed by Nestlé.

The Wonka Bar is both a fictional candy bar, introduced as a key story point in the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, and a type of consumer product candy bar inspired by the fictional confection. Wonka Bars appear in both film adaptations of the novel, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the play Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical (2013) each with different packaging.

Krackel is a chocolate bar made by The Hershey Company.

Nestlé Milk Chocolate was a chocolate bar consisting of milk chocolate, produced by Nestlé. Nestlé Milk Chocolate was sold in many countries around the world, including the United States and Canada. It has now been discontinued by Nestlé.

YoCrunch is a yogurt manufacturer and the creator of yogurt packaged together with crunchy mix-in toppings.

Balance Bar, sometimes styled as balance bar, is the brand name of a nutritional energy bar based on the 40-30-30 dietary principle, that is, a diet containing 40% carbohydrate, 30% protein and 30% dietary fat. The 40-30-30 nutritional philosophy was popularized by Dr. Barry Sears, a biochemist, and later expounded in his Zone diet books.

Flipz is a type of confectionery created by Nestlé in 1997, consisting of salted pretzels covered in chocolate and other coatings.

Pearson's Candy Company is an American chocolate and confectionery manufacturer headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded as a confectionery distribution firm in 1909, the company began to manufacture its own products in 1912. Originally a family-owned company, Pearson's experienced changes in ownership, acquisitions and product alterations in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, before its most recent sale in November of 2018 to Spell Capital, a Minneapolis private equity firm.

Turtles are a candy made with pecans and caramel dipped in chocolate, with a shape resembling a turtle. The name is trademarked by DeMet's Candy Company.

Brynwood Partners is an American private equity investment firm focused on leveraged buyout and other control investments.

Nestlé Crisp are a line of wafer candy bars that are based on existing Nestlé brands and sold in the United States. There are currently three Crisp bars in production: the Butterfinger Crisp, the Baby Ruth Crisp and the Nestlé Crunch Crisp. Each package is made up of two small, individual bars.

DeMet's Candy Company is a food company based in Connecticut. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yıldız Holding.

NestEgg, is a line of egg-shaped chocolate candies made by Nestlé.

Libby's is a brand of canned food and beverages owned by Libby's Brand Holding based in Geneva, Switzerland and licensed to several companies around the world.

References

↑ Brynwood Partners to Sell Maker of Turtles Candy Archived January 4, 2014, at the Wayback Machine .

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[1] Brynwood Partners to Sell Maker of Turtles Candy Archived January 4, 2014, at the Wayback Machine .