HARIBO UK

HARIBO UK

Manufacturing

Pontefract, England 21,212 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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  • And cut 🎬 ! What’s it like running the UK’s leading sweets manufacturer? Our Managing Director, Jon Hughes, recently sat down with City AM to talk about HARIBO’s proud Yorkshire heritage and how we continue to share moments of childlike happiness ☺️ across the region and beyond today. 👉 Watch the interview to hear more about what goes on behind the scenes when coming up with new treats and products for UK consumers, and the ingredients to HARIBO’s continued success as the market leader in the confectionary sector: https://lnkd.in/eNX8HJZS   #TeamHARIBO #heritage #Yorkshire #childlikehappiness

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    The UK boss of HARIBO UK has revealed how he's gone from being too "optimistic and challenging" at the start of his career working for Heineken to more of a realist now he's leading one of the UK's largest confectionary makers. Jon Hughes has been in the top job at a Pontefract-headquartered company, which also makes Maoam, since the end of 2018. Speaking to City AM's UK Editor Jon Robinson on the latest episode of Boardroom Uncovered, Haribo UK's managing director reflected on how he's changed since he first started out and what advice he would give his younger self. Watch the full episode here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eNX8HJZS

  • Psst, did you know? It’s only 14 sleeps until Christmas. 🤗 🎄 So, to create some festive joy here at #HARIBO, we are now well into our annual Countdown to Christmas where over 100 of our colleagues have been taking home vouchers and prizes since the start of the month! With only two weeks away from the big day, today, we invited all of our colleagues to our festive canteens for an equally festive feast! With plenty of clean plates all around, it's safe to say that as a proud Yorkshire manufacturer Yorkshire Puddings are part of our Christmas dinner! 😉 Thank you to our #SharetheHappy team for creating some moments of childlike happiness and excitement to #TeamHARIBO today and throughout the whole of December. #chountdowntochristmas #Christmas #Yorkshire

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  • Yorkshire…our home, sweet home! ✨🍬 Yorkshire has a long history of sweet-manufacturing, which is what makes it the perfect home for us! Our Managing Director, Jon Hughes delivered the regional investment keynote at the Business of Yorkshire Conference, where he discussed how we are committed to driving innovation and creating opportunities (as well as our much-loved sweets🙃) from our sites in Pontefract and Castleford. #heritage #yorkshire #teamharibo

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    Managing Director Haribo UK, Haribo Ireland and Trustee at Castleford Academy Trust

    From our beginnings at Dunhills Factory to the Pontefract Cakes we still make today, Yorkshire pride remains at the heart of our HARIBO UK mission to create moments of childlike happiness throughout the UK. It was great to speak about this and more at the 2024 Business of Yorkshire Conference. Both Yorkshire businesses and the food & drink industry have an important role in promoting economic growth and opportunity here in Yorkshire and across the country. Today’s conference, including the wider insights from Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire and David Skaith, Mayor of York and North Yorkshire was a testament to the potential for business and government to work together and demonstrate why Yorkshire is a great place for business.

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  • It’s time to get festive ❄️ 🤗 We are proud be the head sponsor of the Yorkshire Winter Wonderland, a wonderful local event that brings moments of childlike happiness and festive joy to communities in the region. Goldbear kicked off the celebrations last night by switching on the HARIBO-themed Christmas tree, which takes centre stage in the largest ice rink in the North of England. We were also joined by our long-standing partner Martin House Children's Hospice, as they continue to raise awareness and money for the Build, their biggest fundraising campaign yet. If you’re in the area, make sure to take the opportunity for some ice-skating and a hot treat this Christmas 🎄. And whilst you are there, don’t forget to grab yourself some Christmas treats by popping into our HARIBO store. To find out about more about the event and to book yourself some tickets, visit: https://lnkd.in/e3uqWQqy #Christmas #TeamHARIBO #festive #childlikehappiness

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  • Another weekend, another great Saturday working with Martin House Children's Hospice on THE BUILD campaign! 🏗 This time, to #backthebuild, we went to York Designer Outlet where Goldbear and #TeamHARIBO from our York Store were on hand to help raise awareness and funds for our longstanding charity partner. The fan favourite “Buy a Brick” stand was back, along with a special HARIBO lucky dip which saw donators with a chance to get some of our tasty treats, whilst supporting the local hospice. #community #charity #fundraising #backthebuild

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  • It’s been a week since we joined Martin House Children's Hospice at their biggest event in the calendar: the annual Glitter ball! It was an incredible event, and we are delighted to have been able to support the team at Martin House through our sponsorship to raise over £200k on the night! Hosted by TV presenter Christine Talbot and attended by former England football manager Gareth Southgate, both Martin House ambassadors, it was a privilege to attend the fundraising event to support their Build campaign - a £21.9m project to extend and refurbish the hospice facility. Children and families across Yorkshire depend on this organisation and their services, so we’re proud to have been such a longstanding partner and champion of this local charity. Thank you for having us along –and congratulations to the team on another successful Glitter ball. 👏👏   We already can’t wait for what next year holds! #charity #community #fundraising #backthebuild

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  • 📣📣 We’re delighted to announce that our MD, Jon Hughes will be speaking at the Business of Yorkshire Conference next month. It’s over 50 years since we set up in Yorkshire, and from our iconic Pontefract Cakes to our talented sweet-makers, we couldn’t be prouder to call it home! Announcing his participation in the conference, Jon said: “Having called Yorkshire our home for over 50 years, I’m pleased to be representing HARIBO at the Business of Yorkshire Conference next month. By investing in our sites at Pontefract and Castleford, we’re continuously working to innovate the food manufacturing sector in the UK and create moments of childlike happiness for fans across the country.”   To find out more or to secure yourself a ticket to the event to hear from Jon about HARIBO’s presence and investment in the region, please follow the link 👉 https://lnkd.in/dik6TEJw

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    BUSINESS OF YORKSHIRE CONFERENCE - UK HARIBO UK boss confirmed as 8th keynote speaker Everyone at TheBusinessDesk.com is delighted that UK& I Managing Director Jon Hughes has agreed to speak at the Business of Yorkshire Conference in Leeds on November 28th. For full details of how to buy tickets and what else is happening, visit https://lnkd.in/ezhpBFg3

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