Mars launches M&Ms chocolate bar in US

Mars Chocolate North America has introduced a new format for its M&Ms brand.

Its M&Ms chocolate bar is made with milk chocolate and contains fragments of multicolored M&Ms.

Roy Benin, chief consumer officer for Mars Chocolate North America, said: "It's only natural that we infuse the brand's colorful personality and irresistible milk chocolate center into a classic confection like the chocolate bar."

Mars will sell the product in club, convenience, drug and grocery stores as well as mass, specialty, value, and vending channels.

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Single 1.5 oz bars have a suggested retail price of $1.09.

Button-shaped M&Ms were the original answer to non-melting chocolate when the hard-panned confections were introduced in 1941.