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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole Berlin

Salzburg loses exclusive claim to famous Mozart chocolates

The plant that produced 57m of the signature Mozartkugel chocolates annually closed at year’s end.
The plant that produced 57m of the signature Mozartkugel chocolates annually closed at year’s end. Photograph: Ylan/Alamy

Visitors to Salzburg can hardly escape merchandise linked to its favourite son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with T-shirts, golf balls and Playmobil figures in the composer’s image cluttering the gift stores and airport duty-free shops.

But the Austrian city has just lost its exclusive claim to the most beloved souvenir of all – bite-size foil-wrapped Mozart chocolates bearing the musical prodigy’s bewigged likeness.

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