Snickers brings production facilities back to Australia but makes the bar smaller

The corporate behind Snickers has withdrawn its manufacturing manufacturing facility from China and introduced it again to Australia after prospects mentioned they’d boycott the chocolate – however the transfer has come at a price.

Mars Wrigley Australia moved their Snickers manufacturing again to Ballarat in Victoria after the manufacturing facility was closed for obligatory upgrades.

The producers of Twix and Maltesers had been making their nougat, caramel and peanut-heavy bar in Jiaxing metropolis close to Shanghai previous to the transfer again dwelling, which displeased quite a lot of core followers.

So information that the brand new Aussie-made chocolate bar can be six grams lighter than it might have been in the event that they continued to supply it in China will come as a bittersweet capsule to swallow.

Mars Wrigley Australia moved their Snickers manufacturing again to Ballarat in Victoria after the manufacturing facility was closed for obligatory upgrades however now the bars are six grams smaller

Whereas the bar will nonetheless value $2 it will likely be simply 44 grams a serve as a substitute of the China-made ones, which had been 50 grams. 

Coles has already switched its Snickers bars to the 44 gram choice, whereas Woolworths is utilizing up the ultimate 50 gram ones. 

In keeping with an announcement supplied by a Mars Wrigley Australia spokesperson ‘unprecedented value pressures’ is guilty for the load lower. 

In Could 2021 a TikTok video revealing that Snickers was now made in China turned some Australians off the enduring chocolate bar.

In Could 2021 a TikTok video revealing that Snickers was now made in China turned some Australians off the enduring chocolate bar

The video was uploaded to the social media website by Jeremy Toh after he made the invention whereas procuring at a Woolworths. 

Footage exhibits quite a lot of chocolate bars stacked on the cabinets on the grocery store earlier than the digital camera pans as much as a field of Snickers. 

‘Do you know your Snickers are now not made in Australia?’ a voiceover says. 

The person grabs a chocolate bar earlier than turning it over and aiming the digital camera on the packaging the place it’s revealed the bar is made in China.

The TikTok video sparked outrage, with many Australians declaring they’ll now not be shopping for the chocolate bar.

‘No extra Snickers for me now,’ one individual mentioned.

One other individual commented: ‘By no means shopping for a kind of once more’. 

Snickers is produced by the nation’s second largest confectionary producer Mars.

The confectionary big – which additionally has manufacturers together with Maltesers, Twix and M&Ms – imports quite a lot of their merchandise from China, Egypt and as far-off because the Netherlands. 

Chocolate producer Mars prompted outrage from prospects for making a few of their hottest manufacturers in China (pictured M&Ms blocks, that are made in China)

An investigation by Every day Mail Australia discovered whereas some Mars merchandise had been made in Australia, others had been manufactured in Egypt, China (proper) and the Netherlands 

A spokesperson for the corporate in 2020 mentioned no native jobs had been misplaced because the manufacturing of Snickers was briefly moved to a facility in Jiaxing.

The spokesperson mentioned the corporate continued to help Australian made merchandise and staff.

‘Mars Wrigley is happy with the position we play in creating regional jobs and contributing to native economies, and have a robust monitor document in upskilling, coaching and retaining our Associates (workers),’ they mentioned.

‘We apply constant high quality requirements in any respect our international manufacturing amenities to verify we produce top quality merchandise with world-class meals security and in full compliance with regulatory necessities.’ 

Twix bars for the Australian market are produced in Egypt – the place Mars has invested $83million to construct a manufacturing line in Cairo. 

Maltesers and M&Ms bars – which had been launched globally in 2013 and 2017 – are made in China, though the traditional ball-shaped Maltesers are nonetheless made at Mars’ Ballarat facility in Victoria.   

Mars Australia’s Twix bar can be made in Egypt earlier than being imported to the corporate’s Australian facility in Ballarat, Victoria