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. The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited.

The product's name is a combination of Tobler's name and the Italian word torrone (a type of nougat). Producer Mondelez planned to start additional limited production from the end of 2023 in a Slovak factory [24] (known formerly as Figaro) in Bratislava.

In the past it was manufactured in other locations including Bedford in England, and Dundee in Scotland from the 1930s up to 1969.

le leggendarie Branches (1904)[Thus was born one of the companies that made the history and fortune of chocolate [. Please ensure your name and message is exactly how you intend it to be printed, as once purchased this cannot be changed.Toblerone is known for its distinctive shape, a series of joined triangular prisms and lettering engraved in the chocolate. Because she had bought, among many other more expensive items, two bars of Toblerone, pro-Sahlin journalists attempted to downplay her abuse of parliamentary financial privileges as the "Toblerone affair", but Sahlin was nevertheless forced to step down as a Prime Ministerial candidate.

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. His son Theodor entered the business in 1894 and in 1899 set up a chocolate factory, whose products were very successful. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was manufactured under licence in Yugoslavia by Kraš in Zagreb (now in Croatia).Swiss rules introduced in 2017 mandate that indicators of Swiss provenance such as packaging stating "Swiss" and showing images typical of Switzerland may not be used, so the bars will be labelled "created in Switzerland", and the image of the Swiss Matterhorn will be replaced by a "modernised and streamlined mountain logo that aligns with the geometric and triangular aesthetic". 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. 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. Nevertheless, a silhouette of the Matterhorn appears on the modern Toblerone packaging, as seen in the photo above right.