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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Italian–Dutch multinational company of confectionery and chewing gum}}<br />
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{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}<br />
{{Infobox company<br />
| name = Perfetti Van Melle Group BV<br />
| trade_name = <br />
| logo = Perfetti Van Melle logo.svg<br />
| logo_caption = Logo used since 2001<br />
| logo_size = 250px<br />
| type = Besloten vennootschap<br />
| traded_as = Euronext Amsterdam: PVM<br>BIT: PVM<br />
| company_slogan = <br />
| founded = {{start date and age|2001}}<br />[[Italy]]/[[Netherlands]]<br />
| founder = <br />
| predecessors = Perfetti SpA (1946–2001) <br /> [[Perfetti Van Melle#History|Van Melle NV]] (1840–<br />
2001)<br />
| hq_location = {{unbulleted list<br />
| [[Lainate]], Italy<br />
| [[Breda]], Netherlands<br />
}}<br />
| area_served = Worldwide<br />
| num_employees = 17,900<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.perfettivanmelle.com/who-we-are/at-a-glance/|title=Perfetti Van Melle &#124; Who we are &#124; At a glance|website=Perfetti Van Melle}}</ref> (2019)<br />
| industry = Confectionery<br />
| market cap = <br />
| products = Confectionery<br />
| revenue = €2.65&nbsp;billion<ref name="auto"/> (2019)<br />
| operating_income = <br />
| net_income = <br />
| assets = <br />
| equity = <br />
| subsidiaries = <br />
| website = {{URL|https://www.perfettivanmelle.com}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Perfetti Van Melle''' is an [[Italy|Italian]]–[[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[multinational company]] of [[confectionery]] and [[chewing gum|gum]]. It was formed in 2001 of the merger of the Italian-based company '''Perfetti SpA''' and the Dutch-based company '''Van Melle NV'''. Perfetti Van Melle is owned by the Italian Perfetti family and the Dutch Van Melle family, and also Perfetti Van Melle is headquartered in [[Lainate]], Italy, and [[Breda]], Netherlands.<br />
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Perfetti Van Melle is the sixth-largest confectionery manufacturer in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 13, 2013 |title=Billionaire Perfetti Brothers Add to Italy Candy Fortune |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-01/billionaire-perfetti-brothers-add-to-italy-candy-fortune |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> It employs 17,000 people via 30 subsidiary companies and distributes its products in over 159 countries.<br />
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==History==<br />
===Van Melle NV (1840–2001)===<br />
{{Infobox company<br />
| name = Van Melle NV<br />
| logo = Van Melle logo.svg<br />
| type = Naamloze vennootschap<br />
| fate = Merged with Perfetti SpA<br />
| traded_as = <br />
| company_slogan = <br />
| successor = Perfetti Van Melle<br />
| founded = {{Start date and age|1840|df=y}}<br />
| founder = Izaak, Michael and Pierre Van Melle<br />
| defunct = {{End date and age|2001|df=y}} (as company)<br />
| hq_location = [[Breskens]], Netherlands<br />
| area_served = Worldwide<br />
| industry = Confectionery<br />
| products = Candy<br />
| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20010515000000*/vanmelle.com/ www.vanmelle.com] (2001 archive)<br />
}}<br />
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'''Van Melle NV''' was a Dutch confectionery company based in [[Breskens, Netherlands]].<br />
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==Products==<br />
Some of the brands are:<br />
*[[Airheads (candy)|Airheads]]<br />
*Alpenliebe<br />
*Aprilla<br />
*Big Babol<br />
*Brooklyn<br />
*[[Bubbaloo]]<br />
*[[Bubblicious]]<br />
*Cachou Lajaunie<br />
*Center Fresh<br />
*Center Fruit<br />
*Center Shock<br />
*[[Chiclets]]<br />
*[[Chlormint]]<br />
*Chocoliebe<br />
*[[Chupa Chups]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 July 2006 |title=Perfetti Van Melle agrees to buy Spain's Chupa Chups for undisclosed sum |work=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2006/07/03/afx2855088.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312230237/http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2006/07/03/afx2855088.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 March 2008}}</ref><br />
*Daygum<br />
*[[Dentyne]]<br />
*Filly Folly<br />
*[[Frisk (confectionery)|Frisk]]<br />
*[[Fruit-tella]]<br />
*Golia<br />
*Happydent<br />
*[[Hollywood Chewing Gum|Hollywood]]<br />
*[[Klene]]<br />
*La Vosgienne<br />
*Look-O-Look<br />
*Marbels<br />
*Meller<br />
*[[Mentos]]<br />
*Morositas<br />
*[[Smint]]<br />
*[[Stimorol]]<br />
*StopNot<br />
*Sula<br />
*[[Trident (gum)|Trident]]<br />
*V6<br />
*Vigorsol<br />
*Vivident<br />
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[[Image:Mentossugarfree.jpg|thumb|right|Mentos sugar-free manufactured by Perfetti Van Melle]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Companies based in North Holland]]<br />
[[Category:Dutch confectionery]]<br />
[[Category:Confectionery companies of Italy]]<br />
[[Category:Multinational food companies]]<br />
[[Category:Multinational companies headquartered in Italy]]<br />
[[Category:Food and drink companies established in 2001]]<br />
[[Category:Italian companies established in 2001]]<br />
[[Category:Dutch companies established in 2001]]<br />
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