What is the most popular chocolate in Australia? Despite a growing number of local producers, global brands such as Cadbury, Hershey's, and Mars provide the best-selling chocolate in Australia. Cadbury is the nation's best-selling chocolate brand and its oldest Australian factory is located in Tasmania.
In Australia, Cadbury Dairy Milk is the top-selling chocolate brand in value terms, accounting for 17 per cent of what we spend on confectionary*.
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The majority of chocolate sold in Australia is made of "liquor," a paste prepared by industry giants such as Mondelez, Mars, Nestle, and The Hershey Company. In 2021, 49% of adult Australians regularly ate candy and chocolate. As of 2022, Australia had 429 chocolate and confectionery producers.
1. Lindt. Taking the gold in our ranking of 20 chocolate brands is Lindt Chocolate. The brand has been perfecting chocolate for over 170 years.
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Cadbury is the nation's best-selling chocolate brand and its oldest Australian factory is located in Tasmania.
This statistic shows the brands of chocolate and other candy eaten most often in the United States in 2020. The data has been calculated by Statista based on the U.S. Census data and Simmons National Consumer Survey (NHCS). According to this statistic, 48.06 million Americans consumed Snickers (Chocolate) in 2020.
Cadbury's Chocolate Factory (also known as Cadbury's Claremont and colloquially as Cadbury's) is the largest chocolate factory in the Southern Hemisphere, producing a company-record of over 60,000 tonnes (59,000 long tons; 66,000 short tons) of chocolate in 2021.
Australian chocolate is a high quality product produced with carefully controlled safe practises. This results in chocolate with optimal flavour that is among the best in the world. It takes about 5 million tonnes of cocoa to make the chocolate the world consumes each year.
The Australian Chocolate Market stood at USD3451. 05 million in 2021 and is expected to grow with a CAGR of 7.79% in the forecast period, 2023-2027.
There are 366 Chocolate and Confectionery Manufacturing businesses in Australia as of 2023, a decline of -0.5% from 2022.
In Australia, there's understandably a huge demand for chocolate to melt at a higher temperature than it would over here in the UK. To solve this, Cadbury adds Shea Butter and Palm Oil, giving Australian chocolate a higher melting point, but also a slightly waxy aftertaste.
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG, doing business as Lindt, is a Swiss chocolatier and confectionery company founded in 1845 and known for its chocolate truffles and chocolate bars, among other sweets. It is based in Kilchberg, where its main factory and museum are located.
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The U.S. company Mars Wrigley Confectionery was the top chocolate company in the world in 2021, beating its competitors by more than five billion U.S. dollars in net sales.
Ernest Hillier Chocolates is an Australian chocolatier. Founded in 1914, it is Australia's first chocolate manufacturer, and its oldest privately owned chocolatier is still in operation.
Chocolate and Confectionery Manufacturing in Australia trends (2018-2023) Manufacturing revenue has grown by an annualised 1.7% to $7.3 billion through the end of 2022-23, although profit margins have fallen to 3.7% and revenue has dropped by 1.9% in 2022-23 alone.
Australia is known for many things, including swathes of tropical beaches, marine reserves, Aboriginal culture, cute koalas, rolling wine country, and lush rainforests.
The chocolate house of Cadbury was founded in Birmingham, England in 1830 and began exports to Australia in 1881. After the First World War a period of global expansion began and it was decided to establish manufacturing in Australia.
Cadbury Celebrates 100 Years
We're celebrating a century of making Cadbury in Australia and bringing people together. Using locally sourced milk from our dairy farmers, we started making chocolate in Claremont, Tasmania 100 years ago, and we're proud to see how far Australia has come.
Switzerland is the country that is responsible for the most amount of chocolate consumed per capita. Even though there are certainly countries across the globe that consume more total chocolate than Switzerland, Switzerland consumes the most chocolate per person.
There are of course many different varieties of chocolate. However, the four most popular types of chocolate bar are: dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate and semisweet.
Any British expat will tell you Cadbury's glass-and-a-half classic tastes different between the UK and Australia and they're not wrong: Australia's is better. Not only is the Oz bar larger by five grams, it has a higher minimum amount of cocoa solids and is way more mouth-melty than its British counterpart.
Created in 1964, Arnott's Tim Tam is Australia's most loved & most iconic chocolate biscuit.
Australian distribution: cocoa is grown near Darwin in the NT, in North Queensland and in north-west Western Australia.