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Do we like Haribo?

Maker of Gold-Bears gummy sweets and liquorice, based in Grafschaft near Bonn, Germany

Our score: 5 out of 10. Mixed. We'd hesitate: a 2017 forced-labour allegation in the supply chain was never followed by audit results we could find, plus a cartel-style fine. The company does respond to problems.

Haribo began in 1920 in Bonn, when Hans Riegel Sr. founded it. The name is short for Hans Riegel Bonn. His son Hans ran it from 1946 until he died in 2013, and the Riegel family still owns it. Estimated sales were over €3bn.

The big drama was in 2017. A German TV documentary (ARD) alleged workers on Brazilian carnauba wax farms supplying Haribo were in conditions amounting to modern slavery. It also covered pig farms supplying gelatin.

Haribo said it had asked independent auditors to investigate its carnauba wax supply chain. We couldn't find the results, so we can't say whether things improved.

Germany's competition authority fined Haribo about €2.4m in 2012 over exchanging competitively relevant information with rivals. Haribo didn't appeal. In 2025 it recalled some sweets in the Netherlands after traces of cannabis were found, and prosecutors dropped their investigation.

So we land in the middle. They're a long-running family firm that reacted to the scandal, but we found no proof it was fixed. That's why it's a 5.

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