Every year on Nov. 11, Japan celebrates one of its favorite snacks — Pocky, a crunchy biscuit stick dipped in chocolate. What began as a marketing stunt by Ezaki Glico — one of the world’s top candy ...

Pocky isn't so much a snack as it is an equalizer, a Japanese common denominator. They arrive in bouquets of as many as 15 individual sticks, designed to be shared with anyone and everyone. For years, ...

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In commemoration of Pocky day on November 11, Japanese food manufacturer Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) launched the “Pocky day SMILE COUNTER campaign” on last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World Pocky Day, celebrated on 11/11 because the date’s numbers correspond to the stick-like shape of the snack, will commemorate ...

Should you visit a supermarket in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand and one of Southeast Asia’s leading cities, you may be surprised at the quantity of shelf space devoted to Japanese snack foods.

Perhaps Japan’s most famous snack of all, Pocky takes its name from the pokkin sound the chocolate-covered pretzel biscuit sticks make when snapped. According to maker Glico, it was first launched in ...

OSAKA (Reuters) - For the first time in its 92-year history, Japanese snacks maker Ezaki Glico is getting serious about growing overseas, aiming to fatten its Pocky biscuit into a $1 billion brand to ...

Every box of Pocky has a picture of the chocolate-covered pretzel sticks on it, but you could make the argument that it’s sort of redundant. In the 59 years that it’s been on the market, Pocky has ...

Glico, the Japanese confectionery company who brought us world-famous Pocky chocolate sticks, has just announced it will be seeing in the New Year period like many of us will be – with the addition of ...

This photo provided by Ezaki Glico Co. shows the shape of a Pocky chocolate snack registered as a three-dimensional trademark. TOKYO -- The shape of the popular Japanese chocolate snack "Pocky" has ...