Duncan Coates

Welcome to HARIBO: UK’s leading sweets manufacturer and one of Yorkshire's largest employers. We are proud to invest in skills and innovation to maintain Yorkshire's rich heritage in sweet-making and manufacturing excellence. Our team of over 700 skilled colleagues is situated across our two Yorkshire manufacturing facilities in Pontefract and Castleford. It is here, where we produce the iconic and much-loved treats including our top selling products Tangfastics, Starmix, Supermix, and Giant Strawbs, as well as our traditional Pontefract Cakes. At HARIBO UK, we deliver quality, great-tasting sweets and pride ourselves on offering consumers a wide variety of products to choose from. We bring exciting tastes and textures to the market and deliver innovation and fun to the confectionary aisle. Across the UK, we now have twelve HARIBO stores run by over 100 colleagues that welcome consumers through our doors to provide our full range of tasty sweets, as well as new and exclusive merchandise. Family-owned, HARIBO is over 100 years young and has been producing great value, quality treats for generations. Our range of treats is produced worldwide across 15 factories to offer HARIBO treats in over 120 countries. HARIBO was founded by Hans Riegel Senior in Bonn, Germany – HA (Hans) RI (Riegel) BO (Bonn) in 1920 and today HARIBO is still a family business run by the Riegel family.