The candy company Mars controls a
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percent share of the global chocolate market, making it the largest chocolate company in the world. Mars is famous for such chocolate candy brands as M&M’s, Snickers, and Twix to name a few. Global Chocolate Market Western Europe is home to the largest market for chocolate confectionary worldwide , as of 2019. In that year, the chocolate confectionary market in Western Europe made up a third of the global market. The popularity of chocolate candy is not expected to dwindle any time soon. In 2019, it was estimated that the size of the global chocolate confectionary market amounted to nearly
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billion U.S. dollars. The market value is expected to exceed
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billion U.S. dollars by 2026. Top Chocolate Brands in the United States Hershey chocolate company controls nearly
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percent of the U.S. chocolate market , followed by Mars with a
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percent share. However, the bestselling chocolate candy brand in the United States are M&M’s , a Mars brand. In 2017, sales of M&M’s amounted to
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million U.S. dollars. Hershey’s chocolate came in second place with
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million dollars in sales.