Haribo Goldbears
It's from 1922, before you were born.
- Maker
- Haribo
- Origin
- Germany
- Debuted
- 1922
- Type
- Gummy candy
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About
As of 2026, it's 104 years old.
Haribo Goldbears are the original gummy bears — the little fruit-gum bears that launched an entire candy category and a slogan so catchy it works in multiple languages ('Kids and grown-ups love it so...'). Everything you call a gummy bear is, on some level, descended from these.
Invented in Bonn, Germany, in 1922 by Hans Riegel — whose company name is literally his initials plus his city — they conquered Europe and then the world, one tiny bear at a time.
Chewy, fruity, and endlessly imitated, Haribo Goldbears are the founding fathers of gummy candy, still ruling a century later.
Haribo Goldbears through the years
Invented in Bonn
Hans Riegel creates the first gummy bears — the 'dancing bears.'
The Goldbears name
The modern smaller bears and slogan take their lasting form.
