Milka Chocolate

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About Milka Chocolate

Milka is Kraft Foods' best-selling brand of milk chocolate. It is sold in bar form, in holiday shapes, and in a variety of specialty forms. It was created in 1901 in Switzerland, by chocolatier Philippe Suchard as his first milk chocolate variety.

The brand has a well-known symbol, the "Milka Cow", which is a lilac colored Simmental cow (see also Purple cow) sporting a bell around her neck, usually shown in an Alpine meadow. The name is believed to be derived from combining Milch und Kakao (the German terms for milk and cocoa, its primary ingredients), but people of the time believed it to be tribute to Carl Russ-Suchard's admiration of Wagner interpretations of the singer Milka Ternina, famous soprano of the time. The chocolates are distinctively packaged in purple.

Today, the chocolate is produced at a number of locations, including Lörrach (Germany), Bludenz (Austria), Svoge (Bulgaria), Bratislava (Slovakia), Braşov (Romania), Paraná (Brazil) and Jankowice (Poland).