Unwanted Food or Drink Products - Once supply conditions are broken, there are a number of factors outside of our control that can affect the quality of a product. Therefore perishable goods such as food and drink cannot be returned. a b Bennett, Oliver (9 August 2004). "Why we love things in mint condition". The Independent . Retrieved 3 November 2014. When US troops were stationed over here during the war, Rowntree started to manufacture Lifesavers for them under licence. When the war drew to a close, the licence was withdrawn. So in 1947, Rowntree came up with its own brand of holey mint, the mighty Polo

Lemon: Similar to the citrus flavour that Nestlé put out around ten years later, but not identical. In 1995, the company launched a major advertising campaign produced by Aardman Animations, which showed animated Polos on a factory production line. In one, a scared Polo without a hole attempts to escape, but is restrained by the hole punching machinery. Polo experimented with other forms of advertising in the end of the 1990s. In 1998, they collaborated with PolyGram for a compilation album, Cool Grooves, [9] which reached No. 12 in the UK Compilation Chart on 5 September that year. [10] See also [ edit ]

When you're on the go, make sure you take some of these delicious breath freshening mint sweets with you. Wherever your day takes you, face the world a bit mintier and fresher with POLO®. POLO® was born in 1948, and we've been bringing minty, crunchy refreshment to the UK ever since. POLO® mints are produced in York, where we've been producing these holey little mints since they were invented. During the 1980s, Peter Sallis provided the voiceover for television advertisements. With the launch of the spearmint variety, a new television campaign featured a voiceover by Danny John-Jules, using a voice similar to the one he employed as the Cat on Red Dwarf. Over the years Rowntree and Nestlé have come up with variations of the original Polo mint. Some of these have been successes, whereas others have failed. None has been as successful as the original Polo mint. [ citation needed]

Meet the rest of our products". Rowntree's. Archived from the original on 15 June 2010 . Retrieved 5 June 2010. Strong/Extra Strong: "We like them strong, but silent." A rival for Trebor, these were very hot. Discontinued in the United Kingdom. Ward, David (27 July 2004). "A legal case with a hole in the middle". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 June 2010.Polo mints were developed by Rowntree's, after manufacturing Life Savers during World War 2 under licence. [3] but their introduction to the market was delayed until 1947, by the onset of the Second World War. [3] [4] Polo fruits followed soon afterward. [5] [6] Company legend is that the name is derived from 'polar' and its implied cool freshness. [7] Varieties [ edit ] Holes: These were a plastic tube of small mints approximately, but not exactly, the size of the hole in a standard Polo mint. Kraft Foods made a similar applications for annular sweets eg bearing the mark LIFESAVERS. Nestlé has tried to oppose this trademark application but failed as the court ruled that customers would be able to distinguish between a Polo and a Lifesaver as both have their marks boldly and prominently embossed on the mint. [ citation needed] Advertising [ edit ] A 'hole' lot of history – Polo turns 70!" (Press release). Nestte. 7 August 2018 . Retrieved 3 May 2022. Fitzgerald, Robert (1989). "Rowntree and Market Strategy" (PDF). Business and Economic History. 18: 54. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2013.