HARIBO UK

HARIBO UK

Manufacturing

Pontefract, England 17,913 followers

"Kids and grown-ups love it so, the happy world of HARIBO!"

About us

Welcome to HARIBO: UK’s leading sweets manufacturer and one of Yorkshire's largest employers. We are proud to invest in skills and innovation to maintain Yorkshire's rich heritage in sweet-making and manufacturing excellence. Our team of over 600 skilled colleagues is situated across our two Yorkshire manufacturing facilities in Pontefract and Castleford. It is here, where we produce the iconic and much-loved treats including our top selling products Tangfastics, Starmix, Supermix, and Giant Strawbs, as well as our traditional Pontefract Cakes. At HARIBO UK, we deliver quality, great-tasting sweets and pride ourselves on offering consumers a wide variety of products to choose from. We bring exciting tastes and textures to the market and deliver innovation and fun to the confectionary aisle. Across the UK, we now have ten HARIBO stores run by over 90 colleagues that welcome consumers through our doors to provide our full range of tasty sweets, as well as new and exclusive merchandise. Family-owned, HARIBO is over 100 years young and has been producing great value, quality treats for generations. Our range of treats is produced worldwide across 16 factories to offer HARIBO treats in over 100 countries. HARIBO was founded by Hans Riegel Senior in Bonn, Germany – HA (Hans) RI (Riegel) BO (Bonn) in 1920 and today HARIBO is still a family business run by the Riegel family.

Website
https://www.haribo.com/enGB/home.html
Industry
Manufacturing
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Pontefract, England
Type
Privately Held
Founded
1979

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Employees at HARIBO UK

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    🎓🎓Last week, in partnership with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, our People Team welcomed a group of 15 teachers from the local area to our Castleford site for a ‘tour & talk’ as part of the “Teacher Encounters” training programme that we are taking part in. Our #TeamHARIBO gave teachers first hand experience of the workplace, an understanding of the current job market, and support to embed careers education into school lessons! As a leading employer in Yorkshire, we believe we can help teachers to better inform and prepare students for life after education by giving them all the tools they will need to be successful as they make the transition into the world of work! A huge thank you to our colleagues who made this visit possible!  👏👏 #Community #Happiness #Futureofwork #localbusiness #WYCA

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    What does democracy taste like? LIQUORICE ⚫🍭 Ahead of the Pontefract Liquorice Festival this Sunday, we’re celebrating our town’s rich history: In case you missed it, the UK went to the polls last Thursday ❎ But do you know where the first secret ballot was held? In our home in Pontefract! In fact, the castle and owl stamped into our beloved Pontefract Cakes is a modern version of the stamp used to seal the first secret ballot in Pontefract in 1872! HARIBO UK was born in Yorkshire 100 years later, and we have been making our traditional Pontefract Cakes with the castle and owl stamp ever since. Come and join #TeamHARIBO and all of the other local businesses in Pontefract this Sunday to celebrate Yorkshire and everything liquorice in an event with fun for all! 👉 Read more about Pontefract's fascinating liquorice history by following the link below: https://lnkd.in/drWRqt5U #Community #Festival #heritage #Liquorice

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    On Sunday, #TeamHARIBO made a splash for a great cause! 🛶🛶 Our long-standing partner Martin House Children's Hospice put on one of the events of the summer with this year’s Dragon Boat Race in Leeds! 💙 Thank you #MartinHouse for having us and well done to our colleagues who had fun taking part in the Tug of War and the boat race! Congratulations to all teams that took to the waters to raise money and awareness for this local charity.   A special thanks to everyone who stopped by to support our paddlers or to donate to Martin House through our fundraising stalls – every pound will make a difference to the hospice. If you would like to support this important Yorkshire charity as well as our two HARIBO Teams, there is still time to do so - Please feel free to donate via our fundraising page: https://lnkd.in/ecRVRpHc #charity #fundraising #happiness #dragonboatrace

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    💡💡 Did you know that Pontefract Cakes are the oldest Liquorice sweet in the UK? With that in mind, we are delighted to announce that we are the head sponsor of this year’s Pontefract Liquorice Festival! The event celebrating Yorkshire’s Liquorice heritage will take place on Sunday 14th July, and we are proud to be able to be a part of this historic and exciting festival which has such deep roots in both, the area and the history of our products. To create a dose of childlike happiness on the day, our Goldbear will be leading the Liquorice Parade that will feature vibrant costumes, inspired by some of the nation’s favourite treats as well as liquorice classics.   In addition to the usual line-up of exciting market stalls set up throughout the town, #TeamHARIBO will also be there with some of our iconic sweets to choose from, along with some limited-edition merchandise from our very own HARIBO pop up shop! So come and join us for a fun day to celebrate the rich history of this area in Yorkshire that we have called our home for over 50 years! 👉 Take a look at our website to find out more: https://lnkd.in/dVHyAaiA We look forward to seeing you there! 😉 #liquorice #heritage #celebrate #yorkshire

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    🎂 Happy 10th Birthday to the Kids’ Voices adverts 🎂   Our Kids’ Voices adverts are growing up! A decade on from when they were first created here in the UK, our iconic adverts been recreated in an amazing 40 variations in 19 countries 🌍   To celebrate this anniversary, #HARIBO has released a brand new behind-the-scenes video, with Quiet Storm, to show how the magic is made ✨   Reflecting on ten years of Kids' Voices, Philip Murphy, Vice President Marketing at HARIBO UK and Ireland, said: "Since the conception of Kids' Voices in the UK 10 years ago, the adverts have perfectly captured the joy of opening a bag of HARIBO and sharing a moment of childlike happiness, no matter the situation. It's a universal experience and we're so proud that the adverts have now been shown in 19 countries.” Take a look at our website to find out more about how our adverts create happiness just like our sweets: https://lnkd.in/ePh_9niN #TeamHARIBO #happiness #happybirthday #Kidsvoices

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    Our sweets are about creating small moments of joy in our daily lives, and that’s just what our adverts do too.  The Kids’ Voices campaign is the perfect personification of our HARIBO brand: it is fun and playful – or as we say in Germany, spitzbuebisch. They’re also universal – just like happiness! Reminiscing on ten years of our iconic commercials, HARIBO’s Herwig Vennekens and Quiet Storm’s Trevor Robinson OBE go behind-the-scenes and reveal the secret ingredients for our sweet success. Whether you’re a farmer, sumo wrestler, football player or police officer, you can always share the joy that comes from opening a bag of your favourite HARIBO sweets 🍬

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    BACK THE BUILD 🏗️ From the BIG Zip in May, to the Leeds Train Station takeover earlier this month, and the Dragon Boat Race next Sunday, we’re always delighted to be involved in Martin House Children's Hospice's fundraising activity! Martin House events always put the ‘fun’ in their fundraising events - and #teamHARIBO always mark these occasions in their calendar! 💙 These activities allow the charity to continue providing family-led care and support for children and young people with life-shortening conditions in Yorkshire. As a proud Yorkshire business, we share a purpose of creating moments of childlike happiness and are honoured to be the headline sponsor of their appeal. #fundraising #localcharity #backthebuild

    We’re kicking off THE BUILD partner spotlight with a focus on HARIBO UK, our headline sponsor of the appeal. HARIBO has supported Martin House for over 15 years through various fundraising and community initiatives. Their values of creating childlike happiness and memorable moments are true to the work Martin House carries out when supporting families across our region 💙 HARIBO got off to a great start supporting THE BUILD not only through sponsorship, but also taking part in our fundraising and awareness activities. We saw Jon Hughes, Managing Director at HARIBO UK & Ireland, along with a team of eleven HARIBO employees brave the dizzying heights of The BIG ZIP in May! Earlier this month HARIBO also took part in our Leeds Train Station takeover. It was great to see Goldbear in attendance, along with HARIBO employees helping us to raise funds by handing out bags of sweets to commuters 🍬 We’re so excited to continue working with HARIBO on the appeal. Look out for more collaboration over the coming year. Jon said: “We’re proud to be supporting one of Martin House’s most transformational fundraisers – THE BUILD will help Martin House create more moments of happiness and lasting memories to local children with life-limiting illnesses and their families. These plans will make a real difference to children and families across Yorkshire when they need it most. HARIBO UK would like to encourage other businesses in Yorkshire to BACK THE BUILD.” If you would like to find out more about partnering with Martin House to support THE BUILD, please contact the Partnerships Team: partnerships@martinhouse.org.uk #BackTheBuild #MartinHousePartners #CorporateFundraising

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    📣📣 Paddles up! As a proud partner for over 15 years, we are delighted to sponsor this year’s Martin House Children's Hospice Dragon Boat Race again - and our colleagues are getting ready to make a splash! As one of the most hotly anticipated fundraising events in the calendar, all money raised will help the hospice continue their vital work of supporting families who have children and young people that suffer from life-limiting conditions. So come and join us at Roundhay Park in Leeds on Sunday, 23rd June 2024. It promises to be a fun-filled day of friendly competition and great entertainment! Interested to find out more? Please follow the link: https://lnkd.in/e25QpaJ8 If you would like to support this important Yorkshire charity as well as our #TeamHARIBO, please feel free to donate via our justgiving page: https://lnkd.in/ecRVRpHc Let’s take it away, #TeamHARIBO! 🛶 Good luck to all teams taking part! #fundraising #charity #happiness #martinhousevent #dragonboatrace

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    Two weeks on from our Share the Happy West event, we are looking back at great memories and moments of childlike happiness that we created together! 🐴 🤠   At our site in Castleford, #HARIBO colleagues and their guests were invited to a free afternoon of western-themed performances, activities, live music & dance for kids and grown-ups! ...and let’s not forget the treats! 😉 Thank you and “Yee haw” to Sheena Haigh and our Share the Happy team for organising the event and creating such a fun packed day for all.   #teamHARIBO #Sharethehappy #colleagues #yeehaw

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