Freia Melkesjokolade is a Milk Chocolate from the Norwegian chocolate brand Freia

Freia (chocolate)

Freia is a Norwegian chocolate candy manufacturing company. The company is famous for Freia Melkesjokolade and Kvikk Lunsj, as well as for other candy and dessert products.-History:...

 and has been the most sold chocolate in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 since the 1960s. The chocolate was launched in Sweden

Sweden

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 in the 1950s as a Swedish product, then called Marabou

Marabou

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, and has since then been known under the Marabou

Marabou

Marabou can refer to:* Marabou Stork, a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae* Marabou , a Swedish chocolate brand* Marabou , a historical term for a multiracial person in Haiti...

 brand in the other Nordic countries

Nordic countries

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, and later also Estonia

Estonia

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. In Norway it remains as Freia.

Freia was created in 1906 by the newly hired manager Johan Throne Holst (1868-1946). When he took over management, he realized that there was a potential market for edible milk chocolate, in addition to the dark chocolate and other minor products Freia were producing at the time. It became a success. However, it wasn’t until the 1920s that regular people had the money to buy chocolate, as it was a luxury product at the time. The chocolate is consistently marketed to create national romantic associations - as the essence of everything that is Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

.

Based on the Melkesjokolade Freia produces other candy bar

Candy bar

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s containing nut

Nut (fruit)

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s, extracts from orange

Orange (fruit)

An orange—specifically, the sweet orange—is the citrus Citrus × sinensis and its fruit. It is the most commonly grown tree fruit in the world....

s, raisin

Raisin

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s etc.:

• Firkløver (1926)
• Daim
  Daim bar
  The Daim bar is a crunchy butter almond bar covered in milk chocolate...
  
   (1953)
• Helnøtt (1958)
• Fruktnøtt (1963)
• Appelsinkrokan (2004)
• Kjekskuler (2005)
• Melkesjokolade with Daim (2007)
• Melkesjokolade with NonStop (2007)
• Walters Mandler (Translates to "Walter's Almonds") (2008)
• Walters №156 with chili (2011)