Hershey's, Mars & Mondelez

🍴 Chocolate & Sweets 3 × non-EU 7 × European alternatives

Three American groups own most of the confectionery aisle.

Mondelez alone holds Milka, Toblerone, Côte d'Or, Marabou and Oreo — European brands with an Illinois parent. Actual European ownership is rarer than the packaging suggests.

What you are replacing (3)

Hershey's ↗

Pennsylvania.

🇺🇸 United States ·outside Europe
Mars ↗

Virginia. Snickers, M&M's, Twix.

🇺🇸 United States ·outside Europe
Mondelez ↗

Illinois. Milka, Toblerone, Oreo, Côte d'Or.

🇺🇸 United States ·outside Europe

European alternatives (7)

Suggest another →

Ritter Sport ↗

Waldenbuch, family-owned, square, and militant about it.

🇩🇪 Germany · EU member state
Lindt & Sprüngli ↗

Zurich, 1845. Owns its whole chain from bean to bar.

🇨🇭 Switzerland · EFTA / EEA
Ferrero ↗

Alba, Piedmont. Family-owned, Nutella, Rocher, Kinder.

🇮🇹 Italy · EU member state
Neuhaus ↗

Brussels, and the inventor of the praline in 1912.

🇧🇪 Belgium · EU member state
Anthon Berg ↗

Copenhagen, part of Danish family group Toms.

🇩🇰 Denmark · EU member state
Zotter ↗

Styrian, organic, fair-trade, bean-to-bar, gloriously strange flavours.

🇦🇹 Austria · EU member state
Fazer ↗

Helsinki since 1891. Finns will fight you about the blue bar.

🇫🇮 Finland · EU member state