Chupa Chups, a lollipop company founded by the Spanish employer Enric Bernat in 1958, and owned by multinational corporation Perfetti Van Melle.
Why this candy have a stick on it?
Up until the late 1950s, sweets were different shapes and colours but children would in and out of their mouths regularly to examine them, to talk to friends, to hide them from parents or to put them in pockets for later. This meant kids and sweets were a messy mix. In 1958, Enric Bernat suddenly came out an idea, he thought that this world
needed a product that " would be like eating a sweet with a fork".
