Retail Eurocrem packages: 200 g (7.1 oz) on the left, and 90 g (3.2 oz) on the right
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| Type | Spread |
|---|---|
| Course | Sweet Treat and/or Gourmet Dessert Ingredient |
| Place of origin | Serbia (then Yugoslavia) |
| Region or state | Belgrade |
| Created by | A. Gandola & C. S.p.A. |
| Invented | 1970 |
| Main ingredients | Hazelnuts, milk, sugar |
Eurocrem (a shorthand for Eurocrem Takovo) is a brand of two-colored (brown and white) hazelnut- and cocoa-flavored sweet milk chocolate spread, produced by a Swisslion Group factory in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of Belgrade.
It was the most popular product of its kind across SFR Yugoslavia,[1] when they decided to stop producing it under the licence of A. Gandola & C. Spa. It has nothing to do with introduction of international brands such as Italian Nutella and German Nudossi (locally branded as Croatian Linolada).[citation needed] Additionally, it used to be accompanied by an image of a slice of bread covered with Eurocrem, one half of the slice covered with brown (cocoa-flavored) Eurocrem, and another half covered with white Eurocrem (hazelnut-flavored).
The trademark Eurocrem was registered with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on 3 August 1967 by the Italian company A. Gandola & C. Spa, receiving registration number 336733.[2] A. Gandola & C. Spa licensed the Eurocrem brand in 1972 to Takovo, a food and drinks manufacturer based in Gornji Milanovac, which is now part of Swisslion Group.[3] Takovo was one of the largest industrial companies of the former SFR Yugoslavia. A. Gandola & C. Spa still produces the original Eurocrem chocolate spread.
On 15 September 2008, Swisslion Group registered the Takovo Eurocrem trademark with the WIPO, receiving registration number 993249.[4] According to local media reports in November 2011, Swisslion Group produces 12.000 tonnes (13.228 tons) of Takovo Eurocrem annually; half of that amount is exported to the United States, Western European countries, and countries of the former SFR Yugoslavia.[5]
Licensed Eurocrem is available in only one flavor combination, hazelnut and cocoa.
There's a few variants and sizes of Eurocrem, including Eurocrem Blok, a form of Eurocrem in the style of a chocolate bar, as well as sizes up to 2-lb. buckets.
Eurocrem has been marketed under various slogans, including "for the growing generation", "we grow together" and "there's only one", with the latter used recently as of February 2018[update].[1]
Numerous package types and sizes are manufactured, ranging from 15 g (0.53 oz) to 5 kg (11 lb) containers.[1] Various packaging materials are used, depending on package sizes and their targeting at retail or bulk consumers – including foil packs, plastic or glass bowls and jars, and plastic buckets. Swisslion Group also manufactures a bar version of Eurocrem called Euro Blok.
