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Mars, commonly known as Mars bar, is the name of two varieties of chocolate bar produced by Mars Inc. It was first manufactured in 1932 in Slough , England by Forrest Mars Sr. [ 2 ] The bar consists of caramel and nougat coated with milk chocolate .
The UK headquarters of Mars, Incorporated is in Slough, the main factory having been established in 1932 by Forrest Mars Sr. and Frank C. Mars. It produced the Mars Bar in Slough over 70 years ago. One of the Mars factories has been demolished and some production has moved to the Czech Republic.
In 1932, Forrest Mars Sr. opened what was then Mars headquarters, and remains Mars (UK) headquarters in Slough, Berkshire [41] on the then-new Slough Trading Estate, after a disagreement with his father, Franklin Clarence Mars. In this factory, he produced the first Mars bar, based on the American Milky Way. [42]
Forrest Edward Mars Sr. (March 21, 1904 – July 1, 1999) was an American billionaire businessman and the driving force of the candy company Mars Inc. He is best known for introducing Milky Way (1924) and Mars (1932) chocolate bars , and M&M's (1941) chocolate, as well as orchestrating the launch of Uncle Ben's Rice .
The Mars bar was introduced by Mars, Incorporated in 1932 in Slough, England, by Forrest Mars, Sr. It consists of caramel and nougat coated with milk chocolate. The Kit Kat bar, created by Rowntree's in 1935, is a milk chocolate-covered wafer bar. The bar consists of two or four fingers that can be snapped from the bar separately.
Pages in category "Slough" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... Mars bar; S. SL postcode area; Slough experiment; Slough (poem)
The world's first Mars Bar was made in Slough in 1932; it was modelled on the Milky Way, popular at the time in the USA. Twix was introduced at Slough in 1967, with production moving to eastern France (Mars Chocolat France at Haguenau in Alsace) in 2005. The Ford GT40 was developed by Ford Advanced Vehicles at Slough in the mid-1960s.
1 August — Forrest Mars produces the first Mars bar in his Slough factory. [9] 22 August — first experimental television broadcast by the BBC. [5] 20 September — Methodist Union: the Methodist Church is formed in Britain by merger of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodists and the United Methodist Church.