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{{infobox brand
| name = M&M
| logo = M&M's 2022.svg
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| website = {{url|mms.com}}
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[[File:1941mandms.jpeg|thumb|right|[[Chocolate]] confections were introduced in 1941 by M&M Limited in Newark, New Jersey]]▼
[[File:M&m2.jpg|thumb|Peanut M&Ms have a different shape]]▼
'''M&M's''' is the brand name of a color-varied sugar-coated, [[dragée]] [[chocolate]] [[confectionery]] made by the [[Wrigley Company|Mars Wrigley Confectionery]] division of [[Mars Inc.]] that was founded as M&M Limited in 1941. The confection consists of a candy shell surrounding a filling that determines the specific type or variety. Each piece has the letter "m" printed in [[lower case]] in white on one side. They are produced in different colors, some of which have changed over the years.
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== History ==
=== 1940–70s: Beginnings ===
▲[[File:1941mandms.jpeg|thumb|right|[[Chocolate]] confections were introduced in 1941 by M&M Limited in Newark, New Jersey]]
In the 1930s, [[Forrest Mars Sr.]], son of the Mars Company founder, [[Franklin Clarence Mars]], saw soldiers in the [[Spanish Civil War]] eating [[Smarties]], British-made chocolate pellets with a colored shell of what confectioners call hard panning (essentially hardened sugar syrup) surrounding the outside, preventing the chocolate confection from melting that were produced under the brand name, Rowntree.
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=== 1980s: Expanding internationally ===
▲[[File:M&m2.jpg|thumb|Peanut M&Ms have a different shape]]
In the 1980s, the confections were introduced internationally to Australia, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mms.com/us/about/mmshistory/ |title=M&M'S About M&MS: History |website=Mms.com |date=October 6, 2010 |access-date=November 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124062134/http://mms.com/us/about/mmshistory/ |archive-date=November 24, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> M&Ms Royals were marketed in the early 1980s with an advertising campaign that said: "Now chocolate's got a whisper of mint." They were colored pale green or brown and showed a crown rather than an M&Ms logo.
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