Say it with Love Hearts
Create and share an animated message out of Love Hearts!
Love Hearts were initially launched back in 1954. Since then they’ve been used to send romantic messages and been used for art, clothes, weddings and tonnes of other ideas.
Create and share an animated message out of Love Hearts!
Watch our video and see how people are sharing a bit more love this Valentine's!
Share the Love with our new Love Hearts shortbread biscuits kit.
Love Hearts are made by the confectionery manufacturer Swizzels Matlow Ltd. One of the earlier Swizzels launches was Love Hearts, invented by David Dee. They were first produced in 1954.
The production of a Love Heart with the embossed message and edible ink remains a secret and is unique to Swizzels.
Love Heart rolls were initially put in a Swizzels Christmas Cracker over the festive period. In the early days pack designs were initially painted by hand.
Love Hearts were so popular for Christmas it was decided that they would be sold as an ongoing line.
They were initially sold for 2d and then for 3d ( which is a Three Penny piece).
Free packets of Love Hearts were regularly attached to the front page of the popular children’s comics Beano and Dandy. In later years, they also teamed up with the comic characters for a Television campaign. There were 16 transmissions for Dandy and Beano in each Television area in 1998.
Hippy Bits launched. They were similar to Love Hearts but with Flower Power style messages “Zen”, “Love”, “Power” and “Groovy”.
Love Hearts are exported internationally. They have also been translated into different languages including French.
On June 14th 1991, Princess Diana visited the factory. It was the first official visit to the Borough of High Peak by a member of the Royal Family.
Swizzels Matlow produced a limited edition version of its Love Hearts product to commemorate her visit.
The messages evolved over the years to keep up with modern vernacular with messages such as ‘Fax Me’, ‘Page Me’ ‘Text Me’ and ‘Luv Me 24/7’. Some messages were dropped a few years later when pagers and fax machines became less popular.
A sculpture of a Love Heart was placed in the Millennium Dome as it was chosen as an icon of the 20th Century.
Love Hearts launched a celebration pack in honour of Prince William’s 21st Birthday
Love Hearts invited the UK to have their own message printed on a Love Heart. The winning messages included ‘Heart Baby’ and ‘Happy Harry’, both of which were in tribute of the bravery of two boys who overcame health defects.
Love Heart Christmas Tubes launched.
Love Hearts were made to commemorate the wedding of Colleen and Wayne Rooney.
Swizzels Matlow named as “The Factory of Love” since 122 employees have met and found love in the factory. Watch interviews with some of the couples here.
Commemorative Gift Boxes of Just Married Love Hearts were launched to celebrate the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Limited Edition Mother’s Day Love Hearts launched. Messages include: No.1 Mum; Thank You; Best Mum and Big Hugs
Love Hearts to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Anniversary. Messages included:
CONGRATS MA’AM, CORGI LOVE HRH and JUBILEE 2012
A crown of Love Hearts and other sweets was modelled by a queen lookalike.
A mosaic of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge is made from 10,000 Love Hearts by artist Mark Kennedy
Limited edition Royal Baby Love Hearts are launched. The wrappers had to be designed for both ‘Royal Prince’ and ‘Royal Princess’ as the sex of the unborn baby was unknown.
Several dresses have been made with Love Hearts.
A Love Hearts dress was created by designer April Banbury to celebrate 60 years of love. The dress was modelled at The Clothes Show by Georgi Barratt.
A giant “Fine Filly” Love Heart hat is worn at Royal Ascot and caught the attention of the press.
One Direction teamed up with Swizzels to make One Direction Love Hearts. The One Direction Love Hearts contain 30 themed messages which were chosen by Love Heart fans.
Love Hearts celebrated its 60th anniversary. To mark this occasion, Swizzels ran a competition where fans had the chance to design their very own Love Heart. The winners’ messages, such as ‘TAKE A SELFIE’, ‘TWEET ME’ and ‘SKYPE ME’ were added into the Love Hearts rolls.
Love Hearts launched a search across the UK to find the sweetest proposals of all time.
The Love Hearts Sweetest proposal competition received a huge amount of entries but was won by Michelle Phillips and her husband Russ who got engaged at the Roller Derby in front of millions of people worldwide!
Due to the inherent romantic nature of Love Hearts, Valentines remains the busiest season. In addition to the rise in sales of the regular and personalised Love Hearts, there is also an increased sale of Love Hearts branded gifts, boxes and trinkets.
Love Hearts branding can be found on an array of licensed products from sports tops to candles and jigsaws.
You can now enjoy Love Hearts as a luxurious Carex handwash.
The ideal gift for every sweet lover, this jigsaw comes in its own Love Hearts tin.
Love Hearts x Krispy Kreme Valentine’s Competition T&Cs
UK, 16+ only. Promotion Period: 09.02.21 to 14.02.21. No purchase necessary. Take part in our Love Hearts x Krispy Kreme social competition through, Love Hearts Facebook, Instagram or Twitter page, up until 14.02.21. There will be 10 winners chosen. The prizes will be a year’s supply of Krispy Kreme doughnuts (£156 on a gift card), a Donut Worry soft toy, 6 x Love Hearts giant rolls, 3 x Love Hearts mini rolls bag, and 1 x Love Hearts tin. No limit to entries per person.
Promoter: Swizzels Mallow Ltd., Carlton House, Albion road, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK22 3HA
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1. The promoter is: Swizzels Matlow Limited (company no 00562269) whose registered office is at Carlton House, Albion Road, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK22 3HA.
2. Employees of Swizzels Matlow Limited or their family members or anyone else connected in any way with the competition or helping to set up the competition shall not be permitted to enter the competition. The competition is open to residents of UK, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
3. Entrants must be 16 years old and above.
4. There is no entry fee and no purchase necessary to enter this competition.
6. Closing date for entry to the Love Hearts x Krispy Kreme competition is midnight, Sunday 14th February 2021.
6. No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason.
7. Entries will be accepted from United Kingdom, ROI, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
8. The competition can be entered in 3 ways:
a) Facebook (www.facebook.com/loveheartsUK) Comment on a post.
b) Twitter (www.twitter.com/lovehearts_uk), reply to the tweet
c) Instagram (www.instagram.com/lovehearts_UK comment on the post / share the post to your story.
9. All entries must include an image.
10. We will not accept competition entries that are:
a) automatically generated by computer, macros or other automated means;
b) completed by third parties, trade or consumer group and/or in bulk;
c) illegible, have been altered, reconstructed, forged or tampered with;
d) copies and not originals; or
e) incomplete.
11. Entries by all 3 methods will be selected at random by the promoter.
12. The winners will be contacted within 1 week by direct message on social media. If the winner cannot be contacted or does not claim the prize within 48 hours of notification, we reserve the right to withdraw the prize from the winner and pick a replacement winner.
13. Any entry will be forfeited if the promoter cannot view the entry image due to the Social Media profile being set to private.
14. The promoter’s decision in respect of all matters to do with the competition will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
15. Any changes to the competition will be notified to entrants as soon as possible by the promoter.
16. Delivery of prizes could be between 14 days – 28days before they are sent out to winners.
17.LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
17.1 Insofar as is permitted by law, the Promoter, its agents or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate the winner or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up the prize except where it is caused by the negligence of the Promoter, its agents or distributors or that of their employees. All entrants’ statutory rights are not affected.
17.2 In any event, liability of the Promoter is limited to the maximum value of £1,000.
17.3 The Promoter is not liable for any costs incurred by winners in the redemption of any of the Prizes.
17.4 Neither the Promoter, its employees or agents shall have any responsibility or liability for any of the following:
(a) Any incorrect or inaccurate entry made;
(b) Any system failures on any of the websites or platforms being utilised to run the Competition;
(c) Any third party’s failure to fulfil its obligations under these Terms and Conditions; and
(d) Any third-party failure that results in the interruption or cancellation of the Competition and/or any Prize that may be associated with the Competition.
18. The competition and these terms and conditions will be governed by English law and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
19. The winner agrees to the use of his/her name and image in any publicity material, across Swizzels’ social media channels and on the website. Any personal data relating to the winner or any other entrants will be used solely in accordance with current UK data protection legislation and will not be disclosed to a third party without the entrant’s prior consent.
20. Entry into the competition will be deemed as acceptance of these terms and conditions.
21. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any other Social Network. You are providing your information to Swizzels Matlow Limited and their partner RMS PR. The information provided will be used in conjunction with the following Privacy Policy found at www.swizzels.com/privacy-policy
KRISPY KREME GIFTCARDS
For balance enquiries, please visit a participating Krispy Kreme retail store or call our customer care team on 01276 601170.
2.1 Gift cards can be loaded to any value between £10 and £250.
2.2 Gift cards must be presented at point of purchase.
2.3 Gift cards can only be redeemed at Krispy Kreme UK retail stores, excluding Bentalls and Selfridges concession stores.
2.4 Gift cards are not redeemable through the Krispy Kreme website, or for use on purchases from Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Service Stations, Center Parcs, Bentalls, Selfridges, Krispy Kreme Occasions, Krispy Kreme online orders, University locations, UberEats & Deliveroo.
2.5 Gift cards cannot be exchanged for cash.
2.6 Gift cards are valid for a period of 24 months after activation. Any unused balance after this time will be lost.
2.7 Gift cards cannot be replaced if lost or stolen.
These can be found on the website here: https://www.krispykreme.co.uk/terms-conditions if you wanted to add the link to your competition copy for the T&C around the card.
Love Hearts x Mother’s Day Competition T&Cs
UK, 16+ only. Promotion Period: 14.03.21 to 16.03.21. No purchase necessary. Take part in our Love Hearts x Mother’s Day competition competition through, Love Hearts Facebook, Instagram or Twitter page, up until 16.03.21. There will be 5 winners chosen. The prizes will be a Mother Hen toy, Reed diffuser, Love Hearts Peach Body wash, 4 x Love Hearts mini rolls bag, 5 Giant Rolls, and 1 x Love Hearts tin. No limit to entries per person.
Promoter: Swizzels Mallow Ltd., Carlton House, Albion road, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK22 3HA
Full
16.LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
17.1 Insofar as is permitted by law, the Promoter, its agents or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate the winner or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up the prize except where it is caused by the negligence of the Promoter, its agents or distributors or that of their employees. All entrants’ statutory rights are not affected.
17.2 In any event, liability of the Promoter is limited to the maximum value of £1,000.
17.3 The Promoter is not liable for any costs incurred by winners in the redemption of any of the Prizes.
17.4 Neither the Promoter, its employees or agents shall have any responsibility or liability for any of the following:
(a) Any incorrect or inaccurate entry made;
(b) Any system failures on any of the websites or platforms being utilised to run the Competition;
(c) Any third party’s failure to fulfil its obligations under these Terms and Conditions; and
(d) Any third-party failure that results in the interruption or cancellation of the Competition and/or any Prize that may be associated with the Competition.