Toblerone Is Removing the Matterhorn From Its Packaging
Mondelez is making the change to comply with Swiss law as it moves some production outside of Switzerland
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Toblerone, the triangle-shaped chocolate bars that fill duty-free airport shops, is losing some of its Swiss look as more of the treats are made outside of Switzerland.
The Matterhorn, the famous mountain in the Swiss Alps that has been on Toblerone packaging since 1970, will soon be gone. In its place will be a “streamlined mountain logo,” said a spokeswoman for Mondelez International Inc., the snack company behind the chocolates.
Mondelez said it is making the changes to comply with Swiss law, which says that production of certain foods must be done in Switzerland in order to use the country’s symbols on packaging.
The company said it will be making some Toblerone bars in Bratislava, Slovakia, to keep up with rising demand for the chocolate treat. It will continue to make Toblerone in Bern, Switzerland, where the chocolate brand was founded 115 years ago. Mondelez said it has updated the Bern factory to produce 90 million more 3.5-ounce bars a year.
The chocolate’s recipe will remain the same, the Mondelez spokeswoman said. An outline of a bear hidden in the Matterhorn logo will also stick around, the spokeswoman said, and will appear in the new mountain logo.
Toblerone has been around since 1908, the invention of Swiss chocolatier Theodor Tobler and his cousin Emil Baumann. Its name is a fusion of Mr. Tobler’s last name and torrone, the Italian word for the honey-and-nut nougat used in the bars. The chocolate has a distinct triangular shape, with peaks that look like a mountain range.
In 2016, another Toblerone change upset fans. The amount of chocolate was reduced in some bars sold in the U.K. because of the rising costs of ingredients and production, Mondelez said at the time, causing the gap between the triangular peaks of chocolate to be wider apart.
Toblerone is sold around the world, but the golden triangle packages are hard to miss in airport stores, where giant sizes of the chocolates are available, sometimes weighing more than 4 pounds.
In an episode of “Friends,” Toblerone fan Joey Tribbiani stopped Ross Geller, played by David Schwimmer, as he rushed to the airport. “Ross! Ross!” Matt LeBlanc as Joey shouted. “If you’re going to the airport, can you pick me up another one of those Toblerone bars?”
In addition to the mountain logo swap, Toblerone’s new packaging will also remove references to being made in Switzerland and make an addition: the signature of Mr. Tobler, one of the chocolate’s founders.
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The property, aptly known as the Dolly Parton House, hasn’t been on the market for 25 years, according to the listing with Edward Tinney of Nourmand & Associates and Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency.
It’s unlikely Parton and Dean would recognize the house as it stands today though; it was rebuilt in 2009, and upgraded further in the years since, the listing said.
Across its almost 4,700 square feet, the house has living and dining rooms with walls of glass that frame the views that stretch across the city to the Pacific Ocean.
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