Question: When was the company that manufactures Kinder Surprise founded ?
Context: Alliance Laundry Systems LLC is a provider of commercial laundry systems.  The company designs, manufactures, and markets a line of commercial laundry equipment under various brands in over 100 countries.  Among the company’s products are washers, drying tumblers and ironers for the coin laundry, multi-housing laundries, institutional laundries and laundries for consumer residences.  Alliance Laundry Systems manufactures products under the brands Speed Queen, Cissell, Huebsch, IPSO, and UniMac.  The company was founded in 1908 and is based in Ripon, Wisconsin. Nidec ASI is an Italian multinational company based in Milan, that designs and manufactures rotating electrical machines, Power electronics and industrial automation.  It was founded in 2013 with the acquisition of Ansaldo Sistemi Industriali by Nidec Corporation.  Working in electrical engineering, designs and manufactures of electric motors and generators, power electronics and control systems and automation for industrial applications, Nidec ASI was founded in 2012 when Nidec, a Japanese multinational corporation listed on the and , NJ and ON TOPIX 100 Component and Nikkei, acquired Ansaldo Sistemi Industriali (ASI).  ASI, an industrial branch of the Ansaldo Group, was privatized in 2000.  Its markets include petrochemical, energy, steel, marine and industrial automation. Kinder Surprise, also known as a Kinder Egg or, in the original Italian, Kinder Sorpresa ("sorpresa" being Italian for "surprise"), is a candy manufactured by Italian company Ferrero.  It was invented by William Salice (1933–2016) and is one of several candies sold under the Kinder Chocolate brand.  Intended for children, it is also popular with adult collectors and has the form of a chocolate egg containing a small toy, usually requiring assembly. Labatt Brewing Company Ltd. (French: "Brasseries Labatt du Canada Ltée" ) is a Belgian-owned Canadian beer company founded by John Kinder Labatt in 1847 in London, Ontario.  Labatt is the largest brewer in Canada. Ferrero SpA (] ) is an Italian manufacturer of branded chocolate and confectionery products and it is the third biggest chocolate producer and confectionery company in the world.  It was founded in 1946 in Alba, Piedmont, Italy, by Pietro Ferrero, a confectioner and small-time pastry maker who laid the groundwork for Nutella and famously added hazelnut to save money on chocolate.  The company saw a period of tremendous growth and success under Pietro's son Michele Ferrero, who in turn handed over the daily operations to his sons.  His son Pietro (the founder's grandson), who oversaw global business, died on April 18, 2011, in a cycling accident in South Africa at the age of 47.  The Ferrero Group worldwide – now headed by CEO Giovanni Ferrero – includes 38 trading companies, 18 factories, approximately 21,500 employees and produces around 365,000 tonnes of Nutella each year.  Ferrero International SA's headquarters is in Luxembourg.  Ferrero SpA is a private company owned by the Ferrero family and has been described as "one of the world's most secretive firms".  Reputation Institute's 2009 survey ranks Ferrero as the most reputable company in the world.  The recently announced financial results for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2016 showed consolidated sales growth of 8.2% from the previous fiscal year. Cowgirl Creamery is a company located in Point Reyes Station, California, which manufactures artisan cheeses. Founded in 1994, the company manufactures its own cheeses and sells other imported and domestic cheese and fine artisan foods.  Its own cheeses include "Red Hawk" and "Mt. Tam" (named after Mount Tamalpais).  The company operates a storefront in the Ferry Building of San Francisco.  Founders Peggy Smith and Sue Conley worked for years in the kitchens of the Bay Area, and Alice Waters' Chez Panisse, where Peggy worked for many years, is among many Bay Area establishments to incorporate cheeses from Cowgirl Creamery into its menu. K.S.-n-Kickin is a 3D puzzle/adventure computer game made by ARTWORLD and Big Future Ltd. for Kinder Surprise, with music licensed from Telstar Records.  The game was designed to work on Windows 95 and 98 (although it also works on newer Windows such as Windows Vista, and Windows 7).  The game was a promotion by Ferrero to ""strengthen their foothold in the younger age group market"".  The game features many Kinder Surprise toys from the K00 series. Dulcop is an Italian company created in 1957 in Bologna which manufactures toys, soap bubble products, character figures, and premium figures for several companies such as Kinder Surprise.  The company manufactured a variety of plastic toy soldiers until 1995 such as Robin Hood, Zorro, Tarzan, cowboys, knights, Napoleonic and cowboys and Indians.  The firm also once produced toy cars. Southern Natural Gas Company, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a natural gas pipeline company that was founded in 1928 and is currently a division of Kinder Morgan.  The company was a division of Birmingham-based Sonat Inc. until 1999 when Sonat and El Paso Corporation merged.  El Paso was acquired by Kinder Morgan in 2012.  The Company operates the Southern Natural Pipeline and currently has approximately 8,000 miles of pipeline.  The company was located in the Regions Center, previously the AmSouth-Sonat Tower, from 1972 until 2007 when it relocated its headquarters to the Colonial Brookwood Center. Choco Treasure is a candy created and distributed by Candy Treasure LLC in 2010.  It is intended for children 3 years and over.  It is a chocolate egg with a yellow capsule in the same way as Kinder Surprise only there's a seam around the yellow capsule, and the toys are different inside.
Answer: 1946