Most consumers these days associate Nesquik with chocolate milk. The brand is well known for its flavored milk products, most notably its bottled beverages and drink mixes. But in the late 90s and early aughts, Nesquik was also famous for its cereal. Nesquiks Quik Chocolate Powder was first introduced in 1948, and after several years of success, the product line was expanded to include bottled beverages in 1983. In 1990, cereal giant General Mills and Nestlé, the company behind Nesquik, joined forces to form Cereal Partners Worldwide, making products like Cheerios and Corn Flakes. Around 1997, the partnership also gave life to Nestlé Quik Cereal (which later became Nesquick Cereal).
As early commercials showcased, Nestlé Quik cereal was a crunchy sphere-shaped cereal made with Nestlés signature milk chocolate flavor. Though many cereals created under Cereal Partner Worldwide went on to be commercial successes, the last time a Nesquik Cereal commercial seems to have aired in the U.S. was back in 2001. The product was allegedly discontinued in 2012, meaning it was only in American grocery stores for a little more than a decade.
It’s been in the country since 1974 – talk about nostalgia. But now Nesquik is no more and it’s apparently due to low consumer demand. This titbit of news leads most people to shrug and move on with their day. Others may have screamed and rent their garments (we do not know).
What happened to Nesquik cereal?
If you take a look at the history section of the Nesquik website today, youll see theres no evidence of Nestlé Quik Cereal ever having existed, and when the product was taken off the market in the U.S., the brand offered no explanation why, either. One theory on Reddit surmises that it may have had something to do with Cocoa Puffs being a more popular competitor product, and the facts do add up.
Cocoa Puffs cereal was released in 1958, and that means in 1997, when Nestlé Quik Cereal first started appearing in the cereal aisle, Cocoa Puffs was already a well-established brand. Judging by the commercials, Nestlé Quik Cereals main selling point was that it turned every bowl of cereal milk into chocolate milk. Not only was this not a unique concept since all chocolate cereals do this, but Nestlé Quik Cereal also looked nearly identical to Cocoa Puffs. Its highly likely, therefore, that consumers didnt see a reason to switch to Nestlé Quik Cereal over preexisting chocolate cereals like Cocoa Puffs.
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