Halloween Candy Facts: The Top 5 Best-Selling Chocolate Candy Bars Around The World


While everyone has different tastes and ideas on what is the best candy to find in your trick-or-treat bag, you can’t argue with the actual hard numbers of sales of the products. Here are the top five best-selling candy bars around the world, according to Bloomberg. The #1 choice won by a landslide and may surprise you.

The Cadbury Dairy Bar was first created in 1904. [Image by Matt Cardy/Getty Images]

#5 Cadbury Dairy Milk
Global sales: 2.5 billion
Today made by Mondelez

According to Cadbury, in 1904, Swiss chocolate companies were leading the pack when it came to milk chocolate. George Cadbury Jr. was challenged to create a chocolate bar with more milk in it than any of the competition. The candy bar that we know today was given many suggested names, but it was a customer’s little girl who suggested the name “Dairy Milk” and the name stuck.

#4 Milka
Global sales: 2.5 billion
Today made by Mondelez

The story of the Milka bar had its origin in failure. The story goes that after failing at an American business venture, Philippe Suchard returned back to his homeland in Switzerland and created his chocolate company in 1825. He died in 1884 and in 1901 his children created the Milka brand. Their company was the first to sell both dark and milk chocolate bars.

#3 Galaxy/Dove
Global sales: 2.6 billion
Today Made by Mars

In America, we know the brand by the name of Dove, but just about everywhere else in the world knows the chocolate by the name Galaxy. The candy was first introduced in 1956 by Leo Stefanos, a Greek-American immigrant living in Chicago. Thirty years later, the brand was purchased by Mars Incorporated.

#2 Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
Global sales: 2.7 billion
Today Made by Hershey

Despite what you learned from TV commercials in the past, the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup was not invented when two men (one eating a chocolate bar and one eating peanut butter) crashed into each other. It was created by Harry Burnett Reese, who was originally a farmer who took a job as a dairyman for Hershey in 1916. Three years later, he began making his own candy creations. After creating the “Lizzie Bar” and “Johnny Bar” named after his children, he began making an assortment of different chocolate candy cups in 1928, which included the famed peanut butter variety. It soon became the most popular and he began to market it separately. In 1942, Reeses dropped all other products due to the wartime rationing of food and just focused on the famed peanut butter cup. In 1963, Reeses was sold to Hershey.


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Snickers was named after the Mars’ pet horse. [Image by Sean Gallup]

#1 Snickers
Global Sales: 3.6 billion
Made by Mars

Frank and Ethel Mars first created the Milky Way chocolate bar in the early 1920s and it became the most popular candy bar in America between 1927 and 1929. After three years of developing, the Snickers bar was unveiled in 1930. It was named after the Mars’ pet horse who died a month or two before the bar was released. It sold for twenty cents. Due to its high calorie count, the Mars company often paired the product with athletes and was sometimes marketed as the Marathon bar.

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