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Kit Kat History
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Kit Kat History Found on August 29th 1935 as a Four Finger wafer manufactured in New York as Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp. Acquired by Nestle in 1988.Read More
Kit Kat History Found on August 29th 1935 as a Four Finger wafer manufactured in New York as Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp. Acquired by Nestle in 1988
August 29th 1935 : The Four Finger wafer manufactured in New York and the item is also sold in London and South East of England as Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp.
1935 : Rowntree rebranded the product as Kit Kat Chocolate Crisp.
1942 : During World War II due to shortage of the ingredients altered the recipe of KitKat Chocolate Crisp and the wrapper colour changed to Blue and oval logo replaced by bold rewritten Kit Kat.
1949 : Return to original recipe and change to red wrapper.
1950 : Global Expansion – Kit Kat sold in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada.
1958 : Have a Break, Have a Kit Kat ad line created by Donald Gilles, Executive at Ad agency JWT London.
1960 : Two finger multi pack was introduced. This increased the sale of Kit Kat.
1970 : Kit Kat expanded manufacturing in Germany, Hamburg.
1988 : Nestle Acquires Rowntree.
1989 : Kit Kat start production in Japan by Nestle.
1990 : Manufacturing operations starts in Malaysia, India and China.
1996 : Kit Kat Orange flavour variant released.
1999 : Kit Kat Chunky launched in UK which is an instant hit and quickly rolled to other markets.
2000 : Nestle started manufacturing operation setup in Bulgaria, Russia, Turkey and Venezuela.
2002 : Kit Kat Chunky sales to Central and Eastern Europe.
2005 : Kit Kat Pop Choc launched.
2006 : Kit Kat to become one of the first companies in the introduce Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs) on the front of Kit Kat packs.
2007 : Kit Kat Singles launched.
2008 : Kit Kat Senses launched in Europe and Canada
2010 : 75 years of Kit Kat.
2015 : Kit Kat Senses launched in India.
Kit Kat Products available in India.
- NESTLE KITKAT 2 FINGER 18GM Rs. 15.00
- NESTLE KITKAT 4 FINGER 34GM Rs. 25.00
- NESTLE KITKAT 4 FINGER 90GM FAMILY PACK Rs. 75.00
- NESTLE KIT KAT FAMILY PACK 129GM Rs. 80.00
- NESTLE KIT KAT QUANTUM FINGER 8.6GM Rs. 5.00
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