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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Corporate directors	Günter Blobel Peter Brabeck-Letmathe Nobuyuki Idei Henri Nestlé Kaspar Villiger

Brands

Baby nutrition and food	Cerelac Gerber (Gerber Life) Nido

Baking	Libby's Pumpkin Toll House

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

Candy and dessert	100 Grand Bar Abuelita Aero After Eight Baby Ruth Bertie Beetle Big Turk Bit-O-Honey Breakaway Butterfinger Cailler Caramac Chico babies Chokito Chunky Coffee Crisp Crisp Crunch Goobers Jelly Tots Kit Kat² Lion Bar Mackintosh's Toffee Matchmakers Menier Chocolate Milkybar Milo (chocolate bar) Mirage Munchies Nestle Favrites Oh Henry!² Orion Peppermint Crisp Perugina* Quality Street Raisinets Rolo² Rowntree's Rowntree's Fruit Gums Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles Sin Parar Smarties Sno-Caps Spree Svitoch Toffee Crisp Violet Crumble Walnut Whip White Knight The Willy Wonka Candy Company Yorkie

Coffee and beverage	Carnation Caro Coffee-Mate Juicy Juice KLIM La Lechera Milo Nescafé Nespresso Nesquik Nestea Ovaltine³ (malt only in USA) Sweet Leaf Sjora

Health and nutrition	Boost Jenny Craig Nutrament PowerBar

Ice cream	Dreyer's/Edy's Drumstick Eskimo Pie Häagen-Dazs¹ Hjem-IS Ice Screamers La Cremeria Maxibon Mövenpick Parlour

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

Petcare	Alpo Beggin' Strips Beneful Dog Chow Fancy Feast Felix Friskies ONE Tender Vittles

Other brands	Cereal Partners Worldwide (outside the United States and Canada)

¹ Brand owned by General Mills. ² US production rights owned by The Hershey Company. ³ US rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé, but not worldwide.

See also	Nestlé boycott International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes

Annual revenue 34.23 billion CHF (2010) Employees 281,000 (2010) Stock symbol SIX: NESN OTCBB: NSRGY Website nestle.com