Key facts
- Product type
- Bonbon
- Owner
- Ferrero SpA
- Country
- Italy
- Introduced
- 1979 ; 47 years ago ( 1979 )
- Website
- ferrerorocher .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- bonbon
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Material used
- chocolate
- Manufacturer
- Ferrero SpA
- Official website
- www.ferrerorocher.com/it/it
- Image
- 2023 Ferrero Rocher (3).jpg
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- inception
- 1982-00-00
- Commons category
- Ferrero Rocher
- native label
- Ferrero Rocher
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ferrero Rocher ( UK: /fəˌrɛəroʊ ˈrɒʃeɪ/ fə-RAIR-oh ROSH-ay, US: /- roʊˈʃeɪ/ - roh-SHAY, Italian: [ferˈrɛːro roʃˈʃe]; stylized in all caps) is a brand of chocolate and hazelnut confection manufactured by the Italian company Ferrero. Created by Michele Ferrero in 1979, each Ferrero Rocher ball is covered in foil and placed into a paper liner. The confection is machine-made and much of its production process is kept secret It is sold worldwide and it is particularly associated with Christmas.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ferrero Rocher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.