European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Candy americans love to Chews by Allen Cowan staff writer the Rhine River in not far from Beethoven Hans and Paul Riegel Are setting a Tempo that would make the deaf master they Are creating Taribo Gummi trying to satisfy an insatiable american hunger for the gelatinous Candy shaped like tiny bears that has company officials this is Only the says company spokesman Hans there Are even american spec bears and German spec because of various bans on some like red Are unavailable in and some available in the United states Are not sold in company officials cant explain Gummi bears stateside its like chewing its not As Sweet As american it tastes its a its but nobody advertises that the gelatine base contains protein which is Good for nails and its dietetic compared to other but that Little Taribo says that 50 Grams of its Gummi bears contain 150 a snickers Candy bar at Grams contains 270 while Grams of kit Kat contain 210 he truth of the matter is Taribo has never done a Market Survey and officials dont really know Why Gummi bears Are do they the Only thing i know for says Export manager Hans is the product demand will increase every this is not a on Day Taribo is bearing for their Little bears Are in demand from Monterey to no matter what the some mail order firms and gourmet shops in America sell them for a or a Nickel a in by they sell for about 80 cents a Pound on the Economy and in military what is the fascination with this funny Little Candy that Doest suit everybody the name itself could drive people for Gummi is the German word for in Gummi Bear haters say they Chew like tasteless defenders love but cant say the onslaught probably began with american taking the Candy Home from overseas movers noticed them being shipped Home by the friends would Send them in envelopes to despairing eventually word reached Taribo that there was a Bear Market in the sales began with a the exporting of a few packages in 1975 to new it has turned into a viagra fall sized deluge with truckload size shipments pounds of chewy bears regularly in route to Taribo markets its bears under the registered trademark Gold bears in the states and Goldbarten in like any Good it has spawned Jan and Stan Berenstain Are getting into the these two the creators of the famous Berenstain Bear books for Are marketing a line o Gummi bears modelled on their and then there Are the Gummi creatures from the Brock Candy in Brocks is a fruitier developed after two years of but president David Brock makes no Bones about who Hes of the seven firms that make Gummi bears in West Belgium and Brock says Taribo is the no doubt about floridian Jim an editor at the Orlando rhe son of an air Force Robison grew up in he became addicted to Taribo and quit cold Turkey when his family returned to the states and friends quit sending them in life was unbearable without his he wrote in a rapture to and his neighbourhood German Deli had Taribo he bought five one never made it out of the he hid the others from his children for their and so it the legend of the rubbery bears continues across the its quite a Success Buecken although he wont Bare sales figures or company he neither does he give factory unless a member of the Riegel family can the recipe is a the manufacturing process is a Buecken the ingredients Are on each but that Doest Tell the recipe or the mixing it takes a certain knowhow to do it hell Only say that Taribo makes about different fruit oozing out pounds a Gummi bears Are by far Haritos Best the firm never borrows Money for they build and expand Only with Luecken also says despite the All Taribo Candy is made in plants owned and operated by the its All the same Candy being made to the same the Taribo Candy company began in its Hans started with handmade hard that lasted about six in Early Riegel began the Bear making them by hand in his Small Riegel peddled them from her bicycle around the name Taribo was created by combining the first two letters of Riegel and Buecken thinks the bears were modelled after the popular Teddy Bear produced at the Steiff factory in and he thinks Taribo was the first company to make Gummi he qualifies those statements by saying there is no evidence to support in Riegel added Licorie products to the within the he employed More than 400 workers at his Plant in there Are nearly employees at the three factories in Germany and plants in Denmark and each is company and each produces Candy to the secret formula Riegel created 64 years there Are distribution centers in Sweden and died in for two years his widow ran the firm is run by their two Paul and neither was available for an Buecken says that the bears Are still made with the same ingredients Corn citric artificial and natural colors and beeswax the ingredients Are heated in Large the Liguid drips into rows of holds dusted with Corn a giant Hydraulic press stamping out hundreds of a bears at a the bears the holds Are flipped onto a conveyor which vibrates off the beeswax coating is added to keep the bears from sticking then its packaging samples from each Batch Are theres also a unlike which just changed its Taribo says it has no plans to tamper with new bears with Vitamin diet bears the Range seems they but for its the tried and True Gummi Bear that carries the by intention we specialize in this kind of a Kloeckner we and we do it that what we try to Page 14 the stars and stripes july 1985 the stars and stripes Page 15