PRAGUE (CIA) - A new brand in the field of sweets comes to the Czech market - chocolate Thorntons. Beginning September, shops in the Czech Republic offer chocolate boxes, chocolate bars, mixtures and products for diabetics and the company is planning to extend the assortment by the end of the year 2010. It is possible to buy chocolate branded Thorntons in 16 shops in the Czech Republic.

The Czech Republic is the first country of chocolate Thortons distribution in the region of Central Europe. The brand Thorntons will appear in the Czech Republic mainly in retail. Thorntons owns 379 shops and 250 franchise representations and employs over 4,000 people in Great Britain.