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...Philip Morris, the food-and-tobacco giant. Although it acquired General Foods in 1985 and Kraft in 1988, the company (1989 revenues: $44.8 billion) was still on the lookout for new morsels. Last week Philip Morris said it agreed to spend $3.8 billion to gobble up Zurich-based Jacobs Suchard AG, the world's third largest producer of coffee and confections. Among Suchard's best-known brands: Tobler chocolate...
...Battle of Britain is over chocolate bars. Foreigners are threatening to gobble up the country's top two candymakers. Rowntree Mackintosh, the maker of Kit Kat bars, is under attack from two Swiss companies seeking a larger share of the world chocolate market. One contender: Zurich-based Jacobs Suchard, which has acquired 18.7% of Rowntree's stock. But the more powerful bidder is giant Nestle, which has offered $3.9 billion for all outstanding shares. Rowntree Chairman Kenneth Dixon is asking the British government to help block the takeover...
...March and October, a nine-day Chocolate Lover's Tour of Switzerland whisks aficionados around such top chocolatiers as Lindt, Suchard, Nestlé and Tobler. Cost: $1,600, chocolates and one cathedral included...
...Erytreans For Liberty in America all have the same color skins, a mixture arrived at by melting a bar of Suchard's milk chocolate in a pint of walnut finish. They're all males, all under 5'10", all have arabic features, and all sport little black moustaches. They speak a foreign tongue...
Boys can do their own Simonizing and cleaning with the Kidd-E-Kar Wash kit ($3); girls can cook with a big choice of toys featuring miniature cans and packages of such brand-name products as Campbell Soup, Betty Crocker Cake Mix and Suchard Chocolate. They can clean with Marilyn Products, Inc.'s battery-powered Electrikbroom Jr. ($7.98) and make their own perfumes (Rajah's Scent, Power Dive, Boing, Shmooth, Jeepers...