Everyone has their favorite candy bar, the one they still might occasionally grab while waiting in line at the convenience store.
The Snickers bar, created by Mars Inc. in 1930 is a chewy nougat center with peanuts and caramel on top, all covered in a layer of milk chocolate. It was named Snickers after one of the horses of the Mars family who invented the candy, but sold as the Marathon bar in the United Kingdom. It had global annual sales of over $2 billion last year, becoming the most popular candy bar in the world. However just a few years back, the Mars bar held the top spot among the most popular candy bars, for most of the 20th century.
The Mars bar was created by Mars Inc. as well, in 1936. The international version of the Mars bar has always been different than the United States version, as it does not contain almonds like the original formulation. Both versions are a chocolate malt nougat center with caramel on top and covered in a layer of milk chocolate.
The Mars bar has been renamed to Snickers Almond in 2000, which may have been a huge mistake on the part of Mars Inc. In 2000, annual sales of the Mars bar reached over $2 billion, but by 2002 they had dropped to $1.09 billion.
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February 8th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
What a stupid thing to do….no wonder i stopped eating mars bars…i thought they had been discontinued…didn’t realize they had been re-named.
February 12th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
This is a very tasty item that I found for my speech and it was very helpful.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:12 pm
where is hersheys ranked?
August 10th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
You guys need to check your sources. Kit Kats are the most popular, cause they are available around the world. mars bars and snickers are not. or is your website sponsored by mars? get your facts straight, people.
October 12th, 2008 at 4:25 am
There exists a huge difference between a Candy bar such as Snickers, a wafer bar as Kit Kat or a chocolate bar as Lindt Excellence!!! I must confirm that both your website and Bob are correct. However it is important to know that we are not comparing like with like when one compares a Snickers, to a Kit Kat. So yes! Snickers is the World`s most popular Candy bar, and Kit Kat is the Worlds most popular chocolate wafer bar.
However if one had to calculate the amount of Snickers
sold against Kit Kat worldwide then Kit Kat wins.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
all of you are wrong! The best candy bar in the world is Hershey’s bars, they rock!!!
November 24th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Nah… You’re all wrong! The best candy bar in the world is the ‘Nuts’ bar, if any of you even know what that is. And deep fried in pancake batter it’s even better!
December 23rd, 2008 at 4:18 am
I can’t believe that the most important and best candy bar was left out of the whole discussion……Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, is there anything better? I think Not!!!!
December 30th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
syd is SO right!! Top 3 candy bars are:#3: Kit Kat, even though not an actual candy bar#2: Nestle Crunch bar#1: HERSHEY’S!!!
January 28th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Uh-uh people, the bestest candy in the world is Snickers!! EVERYONE has had one, everyone knows about one, everyone bought one, that means that it is most popular. So stick that in your juicebox and suck it.
February 9th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
on average snickers bars kill 200 people a year due to nut allergies making it also the most deadly chocolate bar
March 13th, 2009 at 7:02 am
So let me get this straight? A Kit Kat is a wafer bar cause it contains wafer, and a Snickers is a candy bar because it contains…??? C’mon people. a Kit Kat bar isn’t candy! Gimme a break! And gimme a Kit Kat!
April 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Nestle Kit Kat’s aren’t even sold in the US … Hertshey has the rights to the name Kit Kat … so I doubt they are even close to #1. Plus Nestle Kit Kat’s suck compared to Hershey Kit Kat’s.
May 4th, 2009 at 9:30 am
I am partial to chocolate, so if it has chocolate in it, I’m pretty happy. That’s why I was disappointed to discover that Hershey opted to discontinue using Milk Chocolate in its Mr. Goodbar, Krackel, and Kissables. Now it’s just vegetable oil and chocolate flavoring–they now say “Made with Chocolate” instead of “Milk Chocolate” on the wrapper. Rats! Now I can’t buy the Minis for meetings because I refuse to buy “Hershey” bars that don’t contain “Hershey’s” chocolate!
May 7th, 2009 at 10:26 am
THIS WEBSITE IS SO WRONG SNICKERS IS THE LAMEST CADY BAR IN THE WORLD HANNAHS RIGHT HERSHY ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!.
May 11th, 2009 at 4:17 am
guys, guys,cmon,, kit kats are tha best ya,,like hershy thingi, ive never heard of it
May 11th, 2009 at 10:18 am
ChocNut of The Philippines is still the best there ever will be in the World!!!
May 15th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
The Mars Bar is still called the Mars Bar in Europe so I don’t know what all that is about when you say it has changed to Snickers Almond. The chocolate bar Marathon was changed to the name Snickers and still is named that to this day! But Mars Bar has always and always will be Mars Bar! The name of the man was called Forrest Mars!
May 18th, 2009 at 10:28 am
you’ve got to be kiding me snickers bar and mars bars r so lame HERSHEHYS ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.