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Toblerone Has a Very Swiss Reason for Changing Design

Toblerone Must Drop Iconic
Mountain From Its Packaging

Mar 6, 2023 3:15 AM CST

Toblerone Must Drop Iconic Mountain From Its Packaging

Due to 'Swissness' legislation

(Newser) - For more than a half-century, Toblerone has featured an image of the Matterhorn on its triangular chocolate bar packaging. But no more: Due to so-called "Swissness" legislation introduced in Switzerland in 2017, the company will soon no longer be allowed to utilize Swiss iconography such as the well-known mountain...

Now Roaming Free: Animals on Animal Cracker Boxes

PETA Push Leads to Change
on Animal Cracker Boxes

Aug 21, 2018 12:06 PM CDT

PETA Push Leads to Change on Animal Cracker Boxes

No more cages on Nabisco snack packaging

(Newser) - We probably wouldn't want to see lions, elephants, and gorillas at the local zoo or circus busting out from behind bars, but on Nabisco's updated animal-cracker packaging, going cage-free has been deemed perfectly safe. USA Today reports the company has removed any depiction of cages on its boxes...

16 Ritz Products Recalled
Over Salmonella Risk

Jul 23, 2018 8:31 AM CDT

16 Ritz Products Recalled Over Salmonella Risk

Those pulled include certain varieties of Ritz Bits

(Newser) - Mondelez Global says it's voluntarily recalling some of its Ritz Cracker products over potential risk of salmonella. The company is recalling 16 varieties of Ritz Cracker Sandwiches and Ritz Bits products in the US. See the full list here , including the expiration dates. The products contain whey powder, which...

5 Companies With Highest, Lowest Corporate Tax Rates

This Company
Has a -5%
Corporate
Tax Rate

Nov 1, 2017 10:17 AM CDT

This Company Has a -5% Corporate Tax Rate

GE tops WalletHub's list of companies with lowest corporate tax rates; Caterpillar has the highest

(Newser) - To best understand how President Trump's plan to cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20% would affect companies, it's necessary to determine a company's effective tax rate. WalletHub is on the case. The outlet reviewed annual reports for the top 100 companies on the S&...

Court: KitKat Can't
Trademark Its 4 'Fingers'

Sep 16, 2015 11:55 AM CDT

Court: KitKat Can't Trademark Its 4 'Fingers'

Nestle's lost this round in long legal battle with Cadbury ... for now

(Newser) - It started with a candy wrapper and ended (for now) in a courtroom. Nestle's attempts to trademark the shape of its "four-fingered" KitKat have been rejected by the European Court of Justice, which ruled that shape alone isn't enough to recognize it as a KitKat, the BBC...

Oreo Maker Creates
Chocolate That
Doesn't Melt

Jun 8, 2013 4:42 PM CDT

Oreo Maker Creates Chocolate That Doesn't Melt

Hopes to boost sales in Africa and Middle East

(Newser) - The company that makes Cadbury chocolates and Oreos is launching a new chocolate that can resist heats of up to 104 degrees without melting, and it should be on shelves soon—but probably not the ones in US grocery stores. This isn't a Willy Wonka-style gimmick so much as...