Galaxy is a

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, made and marketed by Mars Inc., and first manufactured in the United Kingdom in 1960. Galaxy is sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, the

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, India,

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, Australia,

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, and is also sold in the United States, Canada, Mexico and various Continental European countries as

Dove Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with small heads, relatively short necks and slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. ...

. In 2014, Galaxy was ranked the second-best-selling chocolate bar in the UK, after

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."Top 10 selling chocolate bars in the UK"
. Wales Online. Retrieved 28 December 2014

Range

The Galaxy and Dove brands cover a wide range of products including chocolate bars in

milk chocolate Milk chocolate is a form of solid chocolate containing Chocolate liquor, cocoa, sugar and milk. It is the most consumed types of chocolate, type of chocolate, and is used in a wide diversity of chocolate bar, bars, tablets and other confectione ...

caramel Caramel ( or ) is a range of food ingredients made by heating sugars to high temperatures. It is used as a flavoring in puddings and desserts, as a filling in bonbons or candy bars, as a topping for ice cream and custard, and as a colorant ...

, Cookie Crumble, and Fruit & Nut varieties, Minstrels, Ripple (milk chocolate with a folded or "rippled" milk chocolate centre), Amicelli, Duetto, Promises,

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and

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. Related brands in other parts of the world include "Jewels," and "Senzi" in the Middle East. The Galaxy and Dove brands also market a wide range of products including ready-to-drink

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powder,

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and more. A

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Galaxy range launched in 2019. In 2023, the 110g Smooth Milk Galaxy bar sold in the UK was reduced in size to 100g without the price being reduced. It was described in the media as an example of a retail trend for " shrinkflation" during a period of higher inflation.

Bubbles

Galaxy Bubbles is a

made by

Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...

similar to a

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Wispa Wispa is a brand of chocolate bar manufactured by British chocolate company Cadbury. Using aerated chocolate, the bar was launched in 1981 as a trial version in North East England, and with its success it was introduced nationally in 1983. I ...

or Nestlé Aero and was introduced in early 2010. The chocolate is like an ordinary

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which has been

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. The product also comes in an orange variety. The standard version sold in stores is lighter compared to its competitors, at and consequently has a lower energy content, at , compared to the Wispa's and or the Aero's and . It is also available as a 100g 'block' or as a 28g milk chocolate egg (again with an aerated centre). The bar is suitable for vegetarians.

Honeycomb Crisp

Galaxy Honeycomb Crisp is a

made by

that contains small granular nougats of

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, as part of the Galaxy chocolate range.

Marketing

A 2013 British television advertisement for Galaxy featured a computer-generated image of

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, which was created by a CGI firm Framestore in London. The commercial, set to Hepburn singing "

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", debuted in the UK in February 2013. Galaxy previously sponsored the

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Gallery

File:Galaxy_Honyecomb_Crisp_Wrapper.jpg, Front and back of the wrapper of a Galaxy Honeycomb Crisp. File:Galaxy Honeycomb Crisp Front.jpg, Topside of a large Galaxy Honeycomb Crisp bar. File:Galaxy Honeycomb Crisp Bottom.jpg, Underside of a large Galaxy Honeycomb Crisp bar. File:Galaxy Honeycomb Crisp Split.jpg, Large Galaxy Honeycomb Crisp bar, split in two. File:Galaxy_Bubbles_Large_Bar_Wrapper.jpg, Front and back of the wrapper of a large Galaxy Bubbles bar. File:Galaxy_Bubbles_Topview.jpg, A photograph of the topside of a large Galaxy Bubbles bar. File:Galaxy Bubbles Large Bar Inner Wrapper.jpg, A photograph of the golden inner wrapper of a large Galaxy Bubbles bar. File:Galaxy Bubbles Long Split.jpg, Galaxy Bubbles bar, split length wise, to give a view of what's inside. File:Galaxy Bubbles Split and Broken Chunks.jpg, Collection of broken pieces of a Galaxy Bubbles, giving a good view into what it looks like inside. File:Galaxy Bubbles Stack of Broken Chunks.jpg, Galaxy Bubbles bar broken into chunks, and stacked. The aerated bubbles are clearly visible in this photograph.

References

External links

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Galaxy UK advertisement from 1980 on YouTube

Galaxy advertisement from the late 1980s on YouTube
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