Blue Riband

Product type	Chocolate bar
Owner	Nestlé
Country	U.K.
Introduced	1936; 89 years ago (1936)
Website	nestle.co.uk/blueriband

Blue Riband is achocolate biscuit currently produced byNestlé. The bar was launched in 1936^[1] by Gray Dunn, one ofScotland's major biscuit producers and a subsidiary of confectionery giantRowntree's, as a real milk chocolate wafer – a crisp wafer biscuit covered in a very thin layer of milk chocolate. They also produced a similar, non coated, wafer called Caramel Wafer.The Gray Dunn factory also madeBreakaway. The Gray Dunn factory inGlasgow continued to produce Blue Riband until 1994 whenNestlé closed it down and moved production toNewcastle.

Both products came under theNestlé banner when it bought out theRowntree's group and Nestlé announced in April 2017 that production was to move toPoland.^[2]

The current biscuit is much smaller than in the past. It is now packed in a sealed sleeve, whereas it used to have a cellophane wrapper with a large blue bow on it, twist closed at each end.

Gray Dunn itself did continue in business after its management team bought it from Nestle in 1997. It made its own brand biscuits for several UK supermarkets. It went into receivership in 2001.

It was first marketed primarily in the North of theUK,Switzerland,Europe, and in theU.S; it was re-launched in December 2004. The modern version is not as crisp as the original, and the chocolate layer is sweeter and thicker.^{[citation needed]} Blue Riband's primary competitor is theKitKat bar, also manufactured by Nestlé since 1988, which is a similar product and a main reason for the redesign of Blue Riband.^[3]

• Official website
• British Delights-Nestle Blue Riband. Retrieved on 2008 6-7

• Nestlé brands
• Biscuit brands
• 1936 establishments in the United Kingdom

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