Galaxy is a brand of milk chocolate made and marketed by Mars Incorporated sold in the UK and Ireland. It is one of several related products riffing upon the name Mars by using an astronomical name. The brand was launched in 1960 and bought by Mars in 1986.
The brand is called Dove in many parts of the world including the United States, People's Republic of China, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, Malaysia, Australia, France and Greece.
The Galaxy and Dove brands cover a wide range of products, including chocolate bars - milk chocolate, Caramel (milk chocolate with soft caramel centre), Fruit & Nut, Minstrels, Ripple (milk chocolate with a folded or "rippled" milk chocolate centre), Counters (Minstrels without the shell), Amicelli, Duetto, Promises, Bubbles, cookie and cream and Truffle (milk chocolate with a truffle centre). 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 chocolate milk, hot chocolate powder, chocolate cakes, ice cream and more.
Famous quotes containing the word galaxy:
“for it is not so much to know the self
as to know it as it is known
by galaxy and cedar cone,
as if birth had never found it
and death could never end it:”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)