Our Company. Corporate Profile. First Gen was incorporated on December 22, 1998 as a subsidiary of First Philippine Holdings Corporation (FPH), one of the oldest and largest conglomerates in the Philippines, that has interests in power generation, power distribution, infrastructure, manufacturing, and property development.
History and overview. Skittles were first made commercially in 1974 by a British company. They were first introduced in North America in 1979 as an import confectionery. In 1982, domestic production of Skittles began in the United States. Skittles' taste the rainbow theme was created by New York ad agency D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles.
They have hard sugar shells and inside mainly contains sugar, corn syrup, and hydrogenated palm kernel oil. Skittles have no vitamin a, proteins, or calcium. There is over 47,000 bags of skittles made each day and more than 200,000,000 individual skittles made each day. And to put the coating of the skittles on it takes around 8 hours. The original fruit flavor skittles consist of orange, lemon, lime, grape, and strawberry. Later on different/new flavors were introduced.