Bryan, Scott (27 September 2017). "There's A Huge Obsession With Toblerones In Netflix's 'Neo Yokio' And It's Sparked A Weird Meme". BuzzFeed. A triangular set of residences for students of the University of Manchester on the Oxford Road, Manchester, England, built in about 1975 are known as the Toblerones. [35] [36] advertisement Advertising in the 1960s included the production of a model Volkswagen Type 2 by Corgi Toys, featuring Toblerone designs on its side panels. Toblerone ice cream Toblerone displays in Hong Kong Size(g) Theodor Tobler applied for a patent for the Toblerone manufacturing process in Bern in 1909. [8] The Toblerone brand was trademarked the same year, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property in Bern. [10] Albert Einstein, who was working at the institute as a clerk, might have been involved in the patenting. Toblerone was thus the first patented milk chocolate bar. [11] It is probably also one of the oldest candy bars using milk chocolate, although not the very first one; the Branche, another iconic product of the Swiss chocolate industry, had been launched a few years earlier. [12] Some early advertisements for Tobler chocolate appeared in the international languages Esperanto [14] and Ido. [15]

Toblerone ( / ˈ t oʊ b l ər oʊ n/ TOH-blər-ohn, German: [tobləˈroːnə]) is a Swiss chocolate brand [1] owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods). It is produced in Bern, Switzerland, [2] was sometimes manufactured elsewhere in the past, and is planned to be made in Slovakia from the end of 2023. Toblerone is known for its distinctive shape, a series of joined triangular prisms and lettering engraved in the chocolate. Toblerone: 1909". How it All Began: Tobler's Chocolate. Kraft Foods. 2006. Archived from the original on 24 March 2009 . Retrieved 3 February 2008. In the past it was manufactured in other locations including Bedford in England, and Dundee in Scotland from the 1930s up to 1969. [23] In the 1970s and 1980s, it was manufactured under licence in Yugoslavia by Kraš in Zagreb (now in Croatia). [ citation needed]Higher costs take bite out of Toblerone, shrinking UK bars". Sydney Morning Herald. 9 November 2016. Koltrowitz, Silke (23 June 2022). "Toblerone loses Swiss exclusivity as production shifts east". Reuters. Toblerone maintains peak performance". Confectionery Production. 26 July 2019. The product has encountered rivals during its 111 year history, including a similar Kolumbo bar in Croatia, and Swiss company Chocolate Frey's triangular Mahony bars. Olivennes, Hannah (8 November 2016). "Toblerone Alters Shape of 2 Chocolate Bars, and Fans Are Outraged". The New York Times . Retrieved 9 November 2016.

Svensson, Britta (5 January 2007). "Nej det handlade inte bara om Toblerone..." (in Swedish). Expressen. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012 . Retrieved 24 January 2007.University of Manchester". The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition . Retrieved 3 November 2014.

The interior of the Tobler factory in Switzerland was the location where the title sequence of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was filmed. However, the majority of the film was produced in West Germany. [33] The Whitworth Park Residencel". Our Manchester - Manchester History Net. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014 . Retrieved 3 November 2014. Selwood, Daniel. " Poundland unveils Twin Peaks, a Toblerone-style chocolate bar," The Grocer, 19 June 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2017. For the yearly Toblerone Schoggifest, a special oversized bar is created to celebrate the bar's anniversary. The bar's weight represents the years of Toblerone, with the first bar in 2008 weighing 100kg. [16]By 1920, the popular Toblerone recipe already faced competition from other manufacturers, for instance from another Swiss manufacturer, Cailler, who launched the Chocmel tablet that year. [26] Another comparable chocolate made in Switzerland (in this case both for the ingredients and shape) is Mahony, produced by Frey. [27] [28] things you probably didn't know about the Toblerone chocolate bar". Cool FM. Archived from the original on 9 November 2016 . Retrieved 9 November 2016.