Werther’s Original (from the original German: Werthers Echte) is a brand of caramel and butter confectionery owned by the German company August Storck, based in Berlin, Germany. The candy is popular in Europe and North America. 

The sweet brand is named after the town of Werther  in Westphalia, where the company was founded in 1903. In 1969, the sweet began marketing under the brand name Werthers Echte. The brand name Werther’s Original was adopted in the 1990s for the international market. They are now manufactured nearby, in the town of Halle. 

The original Werthers Echte was a caramel hard candy. Werther’s Original is one of the best-selling caramel candies in the world. Werther’s Original offers hard candies, soft caramels, chewy caramels, and sugar-free caramels.  

Around the world ‘Werther’s Original‘ sweets became synonymous with Grandads, Grandfathers, Grandpas and worldly older gents due to a series of 80’s and 90’s TV advertisements. These ads frequently pictured the elder generation passing on these delicious golden treats to the younger ones. These somewhat sickly trailers would show also show Grandfathers reminiscing about their own childhoods being defined by the ‘uncommonly good’ taste of Werther’s candies, before giving their chubby-cheeked grandkids a kiss and a Werther’s sweetie of their own.