Chupa Chups - wikipedia Chupa Chups This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2012 ) Chupa Chups, S.A.U. The Chupa Chups logo, designed by Salvador Dalí Type Sociedad Anónima Unipersonal Industry Confectionery Predecessor Granja Asturias, S.A.U ( 1958 -- 1964 ) Founded Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Catalonia, Spain ( 1958 ( 1958 ) ) Founder Enric Bernat Headquarters Barcelona, Spain Number of locations Lainate, Italy and Breda, Netherlands Key people Xavier Bernat ( CEO ) Products Lollipops Revenue 500 million EUR ( 2006 ) Number of employees 2,000 ( 2006 ) Parent Perfetti Van Melle Website www.chupachups.com Chupa Chups ( Spanish pronunciation : Spanish : ( ˈtʃupa ˈtʃups ) ; ) is a popular Spanish brand of lollipop and other confectionery sold in over 150 countries around the world. The brand was founded in 1958 by Enric Bernat, and is currently owned by the Italian - Dutch multinational corporation Perfetti Van Melle. The name of the brand comes from the Spanish verb chupar, meaning `` to suck ''. Contents 1 History 2 Marketing 3 Products 4 References 5 External links History In the early 1950s, Enric Bernat worked for an apple jam factory called `` Granja Asturias ''. After he broached the idea of making lollipops, the investors left. Bernat took over the company in 1958 and renamed it Chupa Chups. He built the production machines and sold a striped bonbon on a wooden stick for one peseta each. Bernat got the idea of his lollipops from his getting sticky hands from melting sweets. Bernat felt that at that time, sweets were not designed for children. Shopkeepers were instructed to place Chupa Chups near the cash register within reach of children 's hands, instead of the usual placement behind the counter. A giant Chupa Chups lollipop for sale The Chupa Chups company was a success. Within five years Bernat 's sweets were being sold at 300,000 outlets. When the candy was first created, the lolly sticks were made of wood but they switched to plastic sticks. After the end of the Francisco Franco dictatorship ( 1939 -- 75 ), the self - funded private company went international. In the 1970s the lollipops appeared in Japan and Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia, as well as India and Australia. In the 1980s it expanded to the European and North American markets, and in the 1990s to most Asian countries, including South Korea. In China they were manufactured by Tatagum in Panyu, near Guangzhou. As of 2003, 4 billion lollipops a year are sold to 150 countries. The company has 2,000 employees, makes 90 percent of its sales abroad, and has a turnover of € 500,000,000. In 1991, Bernat passed formal control of the company to his son Xavier. The Smint subsidiary brand / company was founded in 1994. In July 2006 the company as a whole was acquired by the Italian group Perfetti Van Melle. Marketing The Chupa Chups logo was designed in 1969 by the artist Salvador Dalí. Its first marketing campaign was the logo with the slogan `` És rodó i dura molt, Chupa Chups '', which translates from Catalan as `` It 's round and long - lasting ''. Later, celebrities like Madonna were hired to advertise the product. In the 1980s, owing to falling birth rates, an anti-smoking slogan `` Smoke Chupa Chups '' was tried to attract further adult consumers. The company 's current anti-smoking slogan is `` Stop smoking, start sucking '', with their packages parodying cigarette pack designs. Some packages parody the mandatory black and white warning labels of the European Union with the notice `` Sucking does not kill. '' Chupa Chups sponsored the 1992 video game Zool. Their logo featured prominently in the first level ' Sweet World '. Products Chupa Chups have a large product range with their standard lollipop the most renowned. In terms of flavour, both apple and orange are popular, followed by cola and strawberry. This article is in a list format that may be better presented using prose. You can help by converting this article to prose, if appropriate. Editing help is available. ( January 2014 ) Lollipops Classic, 12 gram Cremosa ( ice cream and yogurt flavors ) Mini, 6 gram Filled Lollipops Magics ( powder filled ) Bubble Gum ( with bubble gum center ) Fruit - tella ( flavors from nature ) Chocolate ( filled with chocolate ) Cuore di Frutta 2Pop Sugar Free XXL Crazy Dips ( explosion ) Melody Whistle Pops Bubble Gums Big Babol Cotton Bubblegum Toys Spinning Faces Totem Markers Funky Labyrinths Balloon Cars Gifts and Seasonal Gifts Mega Chups 750 gr Back Packs Chupa + Surprise License Products References Jump up ^ Chupa Chups World ( official site ) Jump up ^ `` Perfetti Van Melle agrees to buy Spain 's Chupa Chups for undisclosed sum ''. Forbes. 2006 - 07 - 03. Archived from the original on 2009 - 01 - 24. Jump up ^ `` Obituary : Enric Bernat ''. The Guardian. 2004 - 01 - 03. Jump up ^ `` Modern Masters - Virtual Exhibition : Dali - Chupa Chups logo ( 1969 ) ''. BBC. Retrieved 2012 - 03 - 12. Jump up ^ `` Obituary : Enric Bernat ''. The Guardian. 2004 - 01 - 03. Jump up ^ `` Going Global -- with chupa chups and Atlas Translations ''. 2015 - 05 - 08. Retrieved 2017 - 03 - 04. Jump up ^ http://www.cracked.com/article_20879_the-5-least-subtle-product-placements-in-gaming-history.html Jump up ^ https://www.giantbomb.com/zool/3030-8884/ Jump up ^ Chupa Chups World > Products External links Chupa Chups World ( official site ) ( flash ) Company History Salvador Dalí List of works Paintings Landscape Near Figueras ( 1910 ) Vilabertran ( 1913 ) Cabaret Scene ( 1922 ) Portrait of my father ( 1925 ) The Basket of Bread ( 1926 ) Apparatus and Hand ( 1927 ) The Lugubrious Game ( 1929 ) The First Days of Spring ( 1929 ) The Accommodations of Desire ( 1929 ) The Great Masturbator ( 1929 ) The Persistence of Memory ( 1931 ) The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table ( 1934 ) Morphological Echo ( 1934 -- 36 ) Soft Construction with Boiled Beans ( Premonition of Civil War ) ( 1936 ) The Burning Giraffe ( 1937 ) Metamorphosis of Narcissus ( 1937 ) Swans Reflecting Elephants ( 1937 ) Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach ( 1938 ) Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time ( 1939 ) The Face of War ( 1940 ) Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire ( 1940 ) Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man ( 1943 ) Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening ( 1944 ) Basket of Bread ( 1945 ) The Apotheosis of Homer ( 1945 ) The Temptation of St. Anthony ( 1946 ) The Elephants ( 1948 ) Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio ( 1949 ) Leda Atomica ( 1949 ) The Madonna of Port Lligat ( 1949 ) A Logician Devil ( 1951 ) Christ of Saint John of the Cross ( 1951 ) Galatea of the Spheres ( 1952 ) The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory ( 1952 -- 1954 ) The Colossus of Rhodes ( 1954 ) Crucifixion ( Corpus Hypercubus ) ( 1954 ) Young Virgin Auto - Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity ( 1954 ) The Sacrament of the Last Supper ( 1955 ) Living Still Life ( 1956 ) The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus ( 1958 -- 59 ) The Ecumenical Council ( 1959 -- 60 ) Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid ( 1963 ) La Gare de Perpignan ( 1965 ) Tuna Fishing ( 1966 -- 67 ) The Hallucinogenic Toreador ( 1968 -- 1970 ) La Toile Daligram ( 1972 ) Lincoln in Dalivision ( 1977 ) The Swallow 's Tail ( 1983 ) Other artworks Lobster Telephone ( 1936 ) Mae West Lips Sofa ( 1937 ) Rainy Taxi ( 1938 ) Writings Giraffes on Horseback Salad ( 1937 ) The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí ( 1942 ) Être Dieu ( 1985 ) Films Un Chien Andalou ( 1929 ) L'Age d'Or ( 1930 ) Spellbound ( 1945, dream sequence ) Destino ( 1946, completed 2003 ) Set design and costumes Mariana Pineda ( 1927 production ) Museums Castle of Púbol Dalí Theatre and Museum Espace Dalí Portlligat Museum - House Salvador Dalí Museum Dalí Universe Related Gala Dalí ( wife ) Paranoiac - critical method Salvador Dalí and dance Chupa Chups Salvador Dalí ( 1966 film ) The Death of Salvador Dali ( 2005 film ) Little Ashes ( 2008 film ) `` Salvador Dalí '' ( song ) 2919 Dali ( asteroid ) Dali crater Salvador Dalí Desert Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chupa_Chups&oldid=861148417 '' Categories : Perfetti Van Melle brands Companies established in 1958 Manufacturing companies based in Barcelona 1958 establishments in Spain Salvador Dalí Lollipops Spanish brands Food and drink companies established in 1958 Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from March 2012 All articles needing additional references All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from May 2016 Articles needing cleanup from January 2014 All pages needing cleanup Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from January 2014 Pages using div col with small parameter Talk Contents About Wikipedia Asturianu Български Català Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Euskara Français Galego 한국어 Հայերեն Italiano ქართული Қазақша მარგალური Nederlands 日本 語 Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча Polski Português Русский Simple English Suomi Türkçe Українська اردو Tiếng Việt 粵語 中文 20 more Edit links This page was last edited on 25 September 2018, at 12 : 54 ( UTC ). 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Question: where did the name chupa chups come from
Answer: from the Spanish verb chupar, meaning "to suck"