Nesquik is a brand of food products made by Swiss company Nestle.
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Today, the Nesquik name appears on a wide range of products, including breakfast cereals, powdered mixes for flavored milk, syrups, ready-to-drink products, candy bars, Fondue fountains, Hot chocolate mix, and more.
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Nesquik began as a chocolate powdered flavoring mix in the United States in 1948, as Nestle Quik.
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On 1 April 2013, the official Facebook page of Nesquik USA posted a photo on their page depicting a broccoli-flavored ready-to-drink flavor of Nesquik.
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Nesquik Cereal is a breakfast cereal first manufactured by Cereal Partners in 1999.
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Nesquik Cereal is most similar to General Mills' Cocoa Puffs; it is their most direct competitor.
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Nesquik has had hundreds of various advertising campaigns over its long history.
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Nesquik debuted in 1960 and first appeared in his first TV commercial in 1973.
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Nesquik appears on the packaging and marketing and has appeared in the product's television commercials.
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Nesquik Bunny is featured on the packaging and advertisements for other Nesquik products.
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France and Greece first had another mascot for Nesquik, which was a giant fat yellow hippopotamus-like cartoon creature with a deep voice, wearing a hat with red and white stripes, called Groquik—a variation of Gros Quik, created by Gilbert Mast and puppeteered by Yves Brunier.
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Nesquik has created famous characters such as Casimir, L'Ile aux enfants, and worked on The Muppet Show.
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Mr Nesquik made his final appearance around 1990, concomitant with Quicky's introduction, for the promotion of a new gadget, the Volaquik, already depicting the latter character, making for a symbolic relay between the two mascots.
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Nesquik Cereal is advertised in the 43 countries in which it is sold.
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Clearcast, the agency that regulates television advertisements, said that it understood that the amount of sugar that is in a single glass of prepared chocolate Nesquik is "well within" the World Health Organisation's guidelines for daily sugar consumption.
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Nestle said that the benefits of drinking milk were well known and that Nesquik was suitable to be consumed once a day, as part of a balanced diet and Health promotion.
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