Kinder (brand) explained

Kinder
Currentowner:	Ferrero SpA
Introduced:	24 October 1969 (Kinder Chocolate)
Country:	Italy

Kinder (pronounced as /de/; German for "children") is a brand of chocolate produced by Italian multinational confectionery company Ferrero. Products under the Kinder brand include several varieties and are sold in over 125 countries worldwide.^[1]

Products

Chocolate bars

• Kinder Chocolate – Milk chocolate bars.
• Kinder Maxi – A larger version of the Kinder Chocolate.
• Kinder Bueno – Set of two chocolate wafer bars containing a hazelnut cream filling. It was released in Italy in 1990^[2] . Kinder introduced a white chocolate version of Bueno in 1999. 2017 saw the release of the coconut and dark chocolate variants of the Kinder Bueno.
• Kinder ChocoFresh – Two-layered chocolate bar. In the bottom, a layer of hazelnut cream then, a whipped cream base, then coated with chocolate.

Chocolate confections

• Kinder advent calendars and Christmas stockings are sold during the Christmas season.
  • There are DC Super Hero Girls-themed and Jurassic World-themed Kinder stockings.
• Kinder heart-shaped products are sold during the Valentine's Day season.

• Kinder Surprise – Hollow milk chocolate egg shell containing a toy. The outside surface of the egg is milk chocolate, and the inside is a milky interior.^[3] A capsule containing a toy is inside the chocolate egg.
• Kinder Joy – Similar in shape to the Kinder Surprise, it has a plastic egg-shaped packaging that is internally divided into two halves. One half contains two soft creamy chocolate layers, one milk chocolate-flavoured, one white chocolate-flavoured, which are eaten with an included spoon. Embedded in the ganache are two round, chocolate-covered wafers. The other half contains a small toy.

• Happy Hippos – Wafer coated hippo-shaped biscuit, filled with both a white filling and a hazelnut filling. Happy Hippos are also available in Chocolate flavour.
• Kinder Delice – Chocolate cake with a layer of milk inside and a milk chocolate covering. The Kinder Delice brand has a commemorative variety which features (Portuguese for "soft eggs") which is specific to the city of Aveiro, Portugal.
• Kinder Pingui – Similar to Kinder Delice with the exception of a complete chocolate covering and more milky filling inside.
• Milky Bites, known in the UK as Choco Bons – Small milk chocolate eggs, with a hazelnut and white chocolate filling.
• Country Crisp – Similar to the Kinder Chocolate, containing small pieces of cereal and grain within the chocolate filling, as well as a wafer casing. (Also known under the name 'Kinder Country' and 'Kinder Cereali'.)
• Kinder Maxi King – Milk cake with a layer of caramel inside and a hazelnut chocolate covering.
• Kinder Paradiso – Slightly lemon-flavoured sponge cake, with a creamy milk filling in between and powdered sugar on the top.
• Kinder Milk Slice – Chocolate sponge cake that has a creamy, milky filling in the middle.
• Kinder Yogurt Slice – Sponge cake that has yogurt cream inside it, and there is yogurt inside the yogurt cream. It has a slight lemon flavour.
• Kinder Cards – Biscuits with chocolate on top and creamy milk and cocoa fillings.
• Kinder Brioss – Sponge cake with milk chocolate on the top and a milky filling.
• Kinder Breakfast Plus – Sponge cake with five cereals inside it with malt on the top and cocoa on the inside.
• Kinder Pan and Choc – Sponge cake that also has chocolate sponge cake with a cocoa filling.
• Kinder CereAlé – Cereal bar with strawberry and cream fillings. It was created at Expo 2015.
• Kinder Tronky – Biscuit which combines layers of milky cream, biscuit crumbles and chocolate with a cocoa wafer finish. Introduced in 2023.^[4]
• Kinder Kinderini – Biscuits shaped like heads of children.

Volleyball sponsorships

Kinder sponsors the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese national volleyball teams.

Notes and References

1. http://mobile.ilsole24ore.com/solemobile/main/art/impresa-e-territori/2018-10-12/dalle-barrette-all-ovetto-kinder-festeggia-ad-alba-suoi-50-anni-194030.shtml?uuid=AE0M6LMG Dalle barrette all’«Ovetto»: Kinder festeggia ad Alba i suoi 50 anni (Italian)
2. Web site: Kinder brand seeing success in U.S. confectionery market 2019-11-22 Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery . 2024-08-01 . www.snackandbakery.com . en.
3. Web site: Kinder Australia and New Zealand.
4. Web site: Enerva . Kaycee . 2023-01-26 . Kinder introduces bite-sized Tronky biscuits . 2023-03-07 . Inside FMCG . en-AU.