Talk:Dove (chocolate brand)

Looks like corporate propaganda

• There is a tag on this page. To whoever wrote this, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a cyber-billboard next to a cyber-highway. 67.41.213.180 14:23, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

• Aside from it being a plain advertisement; the facts (in "Dove Brand Products") aren't even true. 83.86.1.180 11:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

• Is this in any way related to Dove soap? I'm guessing it isn't, but I can't find any source that says so... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.35.37.20 (talk) 22:13, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

  Yeah it's a coincidence. Dove & Dove get along well because they don't compete. I was curious myself, since Unilever owns a lot of food companies, if they might happen to own both Doves. But they only own the soap company. —Soap— 02:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

• I object the Dove_(brand) Wikipedia page directly show the soap page. Dove chocolate is a brand too.

Messages?

I just had a 100g bar of US Dove. No messages inside either the outer wrapper or the inner gold foil, and as it was a slab it didn't have "individual chocolate piece[s]" at all. What does the text refer to? 86.132.142.45 (talk) 14:23, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

It refers to the bite size Dove wrappers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.205.40.246 (talk) 10:32, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal

It seems that Dove and Galaxy chocolate are one and the same thing put have seperate pages. It seems illogical to do this and so would like to propose a merge. All those in favour please right your names below with a agree and althoughs against with a disagree The Quill (talk) 08:54, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Agree - starter of discussion, propsed merge. The Quill (talk) 08:54, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

It appears the merge has taken place without further discussion here. I wouldn't now advocate a de-merge but Dove and Galaxy are very different products culturally, even if they are physically identical. The fatty, sugary taste of US chocolate isn't very popular in Britain, and Galaxy is really the only example sold there (an attempt to market Hershey chocolate failed.) Galaxy is marketed exclusively to women as an 'indulgence' - the images taken from UK advertising in the article illustrate this marketing focus well. In America, Dove is a mainstream chocolate brand. --Ef80 (talk) 13:59, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

The brands have different histories – Galaxy was introduced by Mars in 1958[1], Dove Candies & Ice Cream was acquired by Mars in 1985 and the chocolate was introduced in 1990[2] – and they also have different products, so the suggestion that Galaxy is a rebranded version of Dove chocolate is probably misleading. snigbrook (talk) 17:11, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

The hatnote

Its convenient to have the link to the other Dove company on top like that, and I have no problem with it staying, but Im not sure there's a lot of actual *confusion* between the two. You're never gonna go to the grocery store and come home with 8 bars of soap and say "Oh no! I bought the wrong kind of Dove bars! I just saw the word Dove on the display and I got confused!" Amusing but not very probable. If it stays it should just perhaps be a "see also" type of message. —Soap— 01:59, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Apparently some people do believe that they're related, whether because of a misconception that no two companies can share a brand name or for some other reason. —Soap— 01:33, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Incorrect?

Isn't the sentence "Dove was introduced to the UK as Galaxy in 1960. In 1986, the company was acquired by Mars, Incorporated." incorrect? Galaxy has always been a Mars brand, so when Galaxy was introduced in the UK, it had no connection to Dove. Shouldn't it be "What is now known as Dove" or something along those lines, the current sentence implies that they were the same thing even back then. 147.147.53.149 (talk) 08:26, 18 June 2021 (UTC)