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Rolo ( ), referring to the roll-styled chocolates, is a brand of truncated cone-shaped or conical frustum-shaped with a caramel inside. First manufactured in Norwich, Norfolk, in the United Kingdom by Mackintosh's in 1937 (followed by Rowntree's after the takeover in 1969), they are made by Nestlé (except in the United States, where production has been licensed to the Hershey Company).
A long-running British advertising slogan for the brand was "Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo?" A YouGov poll saw Rolo ranked the eleventh most popular and seventeenth most famous confectionery in the UK.
In 1956, the Necco acquired a licence to produce Rolos in the US. In 1969, the licence for US manufacturing was acquired by the Hershey Company.
In 1988, the Nestlé company acquired Rowntree and its brands, including Rolo. There have now been Rolo biscuits, Ice cream, , birthday cake, desserts, cake bars, doughnuts, mini Rolos, big Rolos (all of which use the same type of caramel), yoghurt, and made. In May 2011, McDonald's combined chocolate pieces and caramel sauce with their soft-serve McFlurry product to simulate the Rolo flavour profile in a cross-branded product. In December 2018, Walmart began selling Rolo ice cream cones and ice cream sandwiches in their stores.
In the UK Rolos are produced at Nestlé's Fawdon factory in Newcastle upon Tyne.
From 1980 to 2003, Rolo was advertised with the slogan "Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo?"
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