<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> kitkat.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Kit Kat is a chocolate - covered wafer bar confection created by Rowntree's of York, United Kingdom, and is now produced globally by Nestlé, which acquired Rowntree in 1988, with the exception of the United States where it is made under license by H.B. Reese Candy Company, a division of The Hershey Company . The standard bars consist of two or four fingers composed of three layers of wafer, separated and covered by an outer layer of chocolate . Each finger can be snapped from the bar separately . There are many different flavours of Kit Kat, including milk, white, and dark chocolate . </P> <P> Use of the name Kit Kat or Kit Cat for a type of food goes back to the 18th century, when mutton pies known as a Kit - Kat were served at meetings of the political Kit - Cat Club in London owned by pastry chef Christopher Catling . </P> <P> The origins of what is now known as the Kit Kat brand go back to 1911, when Rowntree's, a confectionery company based in York in the United Kingdom, trademarked the terms Kit Cat and Kit Kat . The names were not used immediately and Kit Kat first appeared in the 1920s, when Rowntree's launched a brand of boxed chocolates entitled Kit Cat . This continued into the 1930s, when Rowntree's shifted focus and production onto its Black Magic and Dairy Box brands . With the promotion of alternative products the Kit Cat brand decreased and was eventually discontinued . The original four - finger bar was developed after a worker at Rowntree's York Factory put a suggestion in a recommendation box for a snack that "a man could take to work in his pack". The bar launched on 29 August 1935, under the title of Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp (priced at 2d), and was sold in London and throughout Southern England . </P>

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