7 November 1999 November EWS • November 1999 N 1. Polo Mint 1. Polo 2. Mint Extra Strong Trebor 3. Starburst 4. Softmints Trebor 5. Soft Pastilles Rowntree’s 6. Wine Gums Maynard’s 7. Original Werther’s 8. Liquorice Allsorts Bassett’s 9. Chewits 10. Babies Jelly Bassett’s Investment in fixed assets fell from 5.9 assets fell from in fixed Investment Barry Callebaut said the acquisition of chocolate is also selling Austrian Nestlé said the sale was worth sources Nestlé the first six months of 1999, Manner In Top 10 sugar products by value by 10 sugar products Top percent of sales in 1992 to 4.3percent percent the first half of 1999 it fell to In last year. 3.3 percent. will add annual sales of SFrIntra 60 mil- lion (US$41 the fiscal year million). In 31, Barry Callebaut which ended Aug. net sales of SFrreported 2.2 billion (US$1.4 billion). & Schmidt maker Viktor GmbH, Soehne The buyer chocolates. which makes Mozart which will AG & Comp. Manner is Josef with the excep- operation, the entire acquire tion of the buildings and land at the Tulln of Vienna. site, some 40 kilometers west its tens of millions of schillings, small by standards. of 100,000 schillings profit pre-tax reported of 543 million schillings on turnover (US$43 million), against a loss of 3 million schillings in the same period last year. ations in Columbia and Peru, confirm and Peru, ations in Columbia on its core concentration the food giant’s branded business. The Manufacturing Confectioner The Business Magazine of the Global Sweet Goods Industry Goods of the Global Sweet The Business Magazine USINESS 1. Kit Kat 1. Kit 2. Mars bar 3. Dairy Milk ’s 4. Twix 5. Maltesers 6. Roses Cadbury’s 7. Celebrations 8. Snickers 9. Aero 10. Sweets Quality Excludes Resources 52 weeks ending 8 August 1999. gum products. Information Top 10 chocolate products by value by products 10 chocolate Top B The Swiss company said it agreed to sell company said it agreed The Swiss plant was making choco- The Intra 100 staff of approximately The facility’s in the latest move The sale represented has said it sold its minority stake Nestlé along with said the moves, Nestlé U.K. market share market U.K. Nestlé divests units in Italy, Austria units in Italy, Nestlé divests a chocolate business in Italy, will sell Nestlé units. non-core of continuing its divestment chocolate firm to industrial the Intra not dis- were Barry Terms Callebaut. suggest Intra sources closed, but market was sold for less than its SFr 60 million (US$41 million) sales. food late chiefly for wholesale to other producers. people will transfer to the new owner. Nestlé and other European Italiana Nestlé most companies will continue to source the factory. of their needs from to dispose a continuing effort Nestlé by to of businesses no longer seen as central brand-dri- high-margin, its increasingly strategy. ven joint ven- cocoa-processing in a Malaysian Fed- to the Malaysia earlier this year ture again for Agency, eral Land Development an undisclosed sum. oper- of cocoa-processing closures recent Companies in the News Companies in the ADM ...... 8 Alaska Jack’s ...... 16 Kandy & Korn ...... Alice’s 39 Barry Callebaut ...... 7 Bon Bons Chocolatier ...... 39 Candy KitchenCallie’s ...... 39 The Candy Lady...... 16 Cargill ...... 8 Chocolate Angel Confections ...... 16 The Chocolate Den ...... 39 Chocolate Works ...... 16 Chocolates Fine Eaton’s ...... 16 Enstrom Candies ...... 39 ShopFort ...... 40 CandyHenry’s ...... 39 Heilman Nut and Confections . . . . . 40 Kara Chocolates ...... 16 Quality ConfectionsKilwin’s ...... 40 ChocolatesMalley’s ...... 39 Josef Manner & Comp. AG ...... 7 Mars GmbH ...... 8 Candies ...... Moore’s 39 Nestlé ...... 7 Old Kentucky Candies, Inc...... 39 Reid Candy & Nut Shop ...... 39 Viktor Schmidt & Soehne GmbH . . . . 7 United Biscuits ...... 12 Otis ChocolatesVan ...... 16 Shoppe, Sweet Inc...... Victoria’s 16 LambertWarner ...... 8 SINCE 1921 CONFECTIONERTHE MANUFACTURING —