Perugina

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In the late 1990s, Alitalia painted one of its Boeing 747s in a special Baci livery.

Perugina is an Italian confectionery company based in Perugia, Italy.

The company was formed in 1907 by Giovanni Buitoni and Luisa Spagnoli, a confectioner in her own right, in the town of Perugia, in central Italy.

The company was introduced to the U.S.A at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, and has since become known for fine chocolate around the world.

The company produces a wide array of chocolate and food products, including chocolate bars, hard candy, nougat and biscotti. During Easter-time, a major product is chocolate Easter eggs wrapped in colorful aluminum paper.

Their most famous product are the "Baci", chocolate "kisses" filled with hazelnut, wrapped in a multilingual (may contain Italian, English, French, German, Greek, Spanish or Portuguese) love note.

Perugina is now a division of the Nestlé corporation.

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Appliances	BabyNes Dolce Gusto Nespresso Special.T

Baby nutrition	BabyNes Cerelac Gerber Graduates NaturNes Nestum Nido Nutren Junior

Baking	Libby's Pumpkin Toll House

Bottled water	Alaçam Aquapod Aquarel Arrowhead Buxton Contrex Deer Park Ice Mountain Ozarka Panna Perrier Poland Spring Pure Life San Pellegrino Vittel Zephyrhills

Cereals	Chocapic Cookie Crisp¹ Crunch Golden Grahams¹ Golden Nuggets Koko Krunch Lion Cereal Milo Cereal Nesquik (cereal)⁷ Nesquik Duo Cereal⁷ Nesquik CioccoMilk⁷ Shreddies⁸

Chocolate and desserts	100 Grand Bar Abuelita Aero Aero (biscuit) After Eight Baby Ruth Bertie Beetle Big Turk Bit-O-Honey Breakaway Butterfinger Cailler Caramac Carlos V Chico babies Chokito Chunky Coffee Crisp Crisp Crunch Goobers Jelly Tots Kit Kat³ Lion Bar Mackintosh's Toffee Matchmakers Menier Chocolate Milkybar Milo (chocolate bar) Mirage Munchies NestEgg Nestlè Favrites Nestlé Milk Chocolate Oh Henry!⁴ Orion Peppermint Crisp Perugina* Quality Street Raisinets Rolo³ Rowntree's Rowntree's Fruit Gums Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles Sin Parar Smarties⁵ Sno-Caps Spree Svitoch Toffee Crisp Violet Crumble Walnut Whip White Knight The Willy Wonka Candy Company Yorkie

Coffee and beverages	Abuelita BabyNes Boost Carnation Caro Coffee-Mate Dancow Dolce Gusto Juicy Juice KLIM La Lechera Milo Nescafé Nespresso Nesquik (mix) Nesquik Ready-To-Drink Nesquik (syrup) Nestea Ovaltine⁶ Sjora Special.T Sweet Leaf

Health and nutrition	Boost Jenny Craig Nutrament Pamlab Peptamen PowerBar

Ice cream	D'Onofrio Dreyer's/Edy's Drumstick Eskimo Pie Frosty Paws Häagen-Dazs² Hjem-IS Ice Screamers La Cremeria Maxibon Milo Ice Cream Mövenpick Parlour

Prepared food	Buitoni California Pizza Kitchen DiGiorno Herta Hot Pockets Lean Cuisine Lean Pockets Maggi noodles Stouffer's Thomy Tombstone Uncle Tobys Yinlu Foods

Nesquik	Nesquik Powder Nesquik Cereal⁷ Nesquik Duo Cereal⁷ Nesquik CioccoMilk⁷ Nesquik (beverage) Nesquik (chocolate) Nesquik (syrup)

Milo	Milo granules Milo Chocolate Bar Milo Cereal Milo Ice Cream

Petcare	Alpo Bakers Complete Beggin' Strips Beneful Bonio Dog Chow Fancy Feast Felix Friskies Frosty Paws Latz ONE Tender Vittles Winalot

Former	Alcon Powwow Water f.a.a ™ Quik Wonder Ball

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¹ Currently manufactured by General Mills in the United States. Produced by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere.
² Brand owned by General Mills; U.S. and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license.
³ U.S. production rights owned by The Hershey Company.
⁴ Canadian production rights owned by The Hershey Company.
⁵ U.S. rights and production owned by Smarties Candy Company, with a different product.
⁶ U.S. rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned by Associated British Foods.
⁷ Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlè.
⁸ Produced by Cereal Partners, and Branded Nestlé in The United Kingdom, and Ireland. Produced by Post Foods, elsewhere.