Polo Spearmint Mints Tubes, 32 x 34 g

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A 'hole' lot of history – Polo turns 70!" (Press release). Nestte. 7 August 2018 . Retrieved 3 May 2022. Unwanted Food or Drink Products - Once supply conditions are broken, there are a number of factors outside of our control that can affect the quality of a product. Therefore perishable goods such as food and drink cannot be returned. Lemon: Similar to the citrus flavour that Nestlé put out around ten years later, but not identical.

Nestlé's application was allowed to proceed if it agreed to narrow the description of the mint i.e. the dimensions of the mint were limited to the standard dimensions of the Polo mint and that it was limited to "mint flavoured compressed confectionery". [8]

Meet the rest of our products". Rowntree's. Archived from the original on 15 June 2010 . Retrieved 5 June 2010. a b Bennett, Oliver (9 August 2004). "Why we love things in mint condition". The Independent . Retrieved 3 November 2014. When US troops were stationed over here during the war, Rowntree started to manufacture Lifesavers for them under licence. When the war drew to a close, the licence was withdrawn. So in 1947, Rowntree came up with its own brand of holey mint, the mighty Polo For reasons of hygiene and safety, personal grooming products, cosmetics or items of intimate clothing cannot be returned. Ward, David (27 July 2004). "A legal case with a hole in the middle". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 June 2010. During the 1980s, Peter Sallis provided the voiceover for television advertisements. With the launch of the spearmint variety, a new television campaign featured a voiceover by Danny John-Jules, using a voice similar to the one he employed as the Cat on Red Dwarf.

In 1995, the company launched a major advertising campaign produced by Aardman Animations, which showed animated Polos on a factory production line. In one, a scared Polo without a hole attempts to escape, but is restrained by the hole punching machinery. Polo experimented with other forms of advertising in the end of the 1990s. In 1998, they collaborated with PolyGram for a compilation album, Cool Grooves, [9] which reached No. 12 in the UK Compilation Chart on 5 September that year. [10] See also [ edit ] Fitzgerald, Robert (1989). "Rowntree and Market Strategy" (PDF). Business and Economic History. 18: 54. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2013.Polo mints were developed by Rowntree's, after manufacturing Life Savers during World War 2 under licence. [3] but their introduction to the market was delayed until 1947, by the onset of the Second World War. [3] [4] Polo fruits followed soon afterward. [5] [6] Company legend is that the name is derived from 'polar' and its implied cool freshness. [7] Varieties [ edit ] Before this, Rowntree had already experimented with different Polos in the 1980s. Polo Fruits were always available, but they briefly made: