Marianne (candy)

Marianne is a Finnish mint chocolate candy originally developed in 1949 by Chymos, now produced by Fazer.

[2] Production of Marianne started in 1949 at the Chymos factory in Toijala under instruction of master candymaker Aimo Martikainen.

After the war, the Finnish people's appetite for candy was immense, and for some reason, Finns took a liking to a combination of chocolate and peppermint.

In 1956, Chymos's new CEO Jouko Keränen had noticed the possibilities of the candy, but he thought the simple paper wrapper was too modest and common.

He gave Aimo Vuorinen, the graphics artist at Chymos, the difficult task of "adding more glamour".

[2] In the 1950s after the war supermarkets became common in Finland, where customers picked their items from the shelf themselves and paid for them at the cashier's desk.

[2] Vuorinen thought that peppermint and chocolate were associated with France (similarly to Fazer's "French pastilles").

Chymos returned to the original red-white striped wrapper, imprinted with the name Marianne.