In the early 1930's a worker at a Rowntree's confectionery factory in York they they develop a product that would be a snack that a man could have in hit lunchbox for work. The resulting product was a chocolate covered biscuit known today as the Kit Kat launched in 1935. The name is believed to have been derived from the Kit-Cat Club, witch was an eighteenth century political club for artists.
In 1969 the company merged with Mackintosh and became Rowntree Mackintosh. In 1987, the company went public, and in 1988 was acquired by Nestle. Throughout the world the Kit Kat remains one of Nestle's most popular products, except in the United States. Rowntree Mackintosh had an agreement with Hershey, where Hershey would sell the Kit Kat under license. Despite the fact that Nestle is well established in the US, the agreement is still in place, and as such any Kit Kat purchased in the United States is a Hershey product.
-Professor Walter
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