Jacobs Suchard The Real Ghostbusters confectioneries products line

Jacobs Suchard The Real Ghostbusters confectioneries products line was a line of candies for Easter that used The Real Ghostbusters done by Jacobs Suchard Ltd. for the UK and Ireland.

List of Known Items[]

The Real Ghostbusters: Milk Chocolate Egg With Assorted Filled Mini-Eggs
The Real Ghostbusters: 5 Hollow Milk Chocolate Ghosts

Trivia[]

Jacobs Suchard Ltd. had owned 29% shares in Rowntree, but sold the shares to Nestle, which brought the holdings above 50%, level needed for effective control of Rowntree. Rowntree, were the makers chocolate products such as Kit-Kat, had been resisting approaches by the two Swiss companies since April 1988.^[1]
Philip Morris bought Jacobs Suchard Ltd. by way of buying 60% of the shares from Klaus J. Jacobs in 1990.^[2] (Chief executive, Chairman of Jacobs Suchard Ltd.^[3]) In 1993 they were renamed "Kraft Jacobs Suchard AG".^[4]

References[]

External Link[]

Bobby_80s (on Instagram), website of image provider Robert Maxwell Barbieri.

Gallery[]

"Milk Chocolate Egg With Assorted Filled Mini-Eggs" images provided by collector Robert Maxwell Barbieri of Bobby_80s (on Instagram).

[1] The New York Times: COMPANY NEWS; Suchard Drops Out (June 25, 1988)

[2] The New York Times: Philip Morris Will Buy Suchard's Europe Units (June 23, 1990)

[3] The Chicago Tribune: A Velamint That`s Easier To Swallow (December 03, 1987)

[4] Funding Universe: Kraft Jacobs Suchard AG History

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