5) Ferrero SpA (Italy) $10.9 billion
I think you can just say that this company has its roots in a modest confection business which was owned by Michele Ferrero’s parents.
In the early 1940s Michele Ferrero expanded his parents’ business which was once a bakery in Alba, Italy and registered as Ferrero SpA.
There was where they developed their ‘pasta gianduja’, a delicious concoction of creamy cocoa butter and roasted hazelnuts.
In 1968 Ferrero SpA produced Kinder Chocolate individual squares of chocolate with a milky cream filling.
The product was their answer to mothers who were looking for a more nutritional snack for their kids.
Few years later they released the now-famous Kinder Surprise, a candy that features a hollow milk chocolate eggshell with a white chocolate lining and unique top that often requires assembly.
Their signature luxury Ferrero Rocher and Raffaello chocolates, their Tic Tac brand sweets and natural fruit flavored teas have all combined to push the company’s revenues to nearly $11 billion in 2014.
