Bears & Friends

A Bavarian sweet counter,
now on its way to South Africa.

Since 1995, Bears & Friends has made fruit gummies in the Bavarian Forest with real fruit juice and colour drawn from food, not colourant. Over 120 varieties, sold from the counter by the bag.

Munich 1995Made in Germany120+ varietiesNo artificial colours
Colour

Colour from food, not colourant

The colours come from black currant, carrot, safflower, spirulina and caramelised sugar. Colouring foods, listed by name on the sheet. No synthetic dyes go into the bag.

Made in Bavaria

The spec sheet travels with it

Every article is made to a full specification — ingredients to two decimal places, allergens, nutrition. What you read here is lifted straight from those sheets, unchanged.

Range

More than 120 kinds at the counter

The German range runs past 120 varieties — letters and numbers, filled hearts, sours, classics. This page shows the first two confirmed for South Africa.

Thirty years, one counter at a time

The road so far

1995
The first shop opens
Munich, Germany
1997
First franchise partner
Darmstadt
1999
Bärenland opens
Ulm
2000
Across the border
Basel, Switzerland
2016
Into Asia
Hong Kong
2024
The group unifies
Germany
Next
The range reaches a new market
South Africa
Confirmed for South Africa

The first two articles

Fruit Juice ABC & Numbers gummies

Fruit Juice ABC & Numbers

ART. 123119 · 01-2026

Letters and numbers in six colours, made with 17% fruit juice from concentrate. Colourless peach through dark-red cherry.

Passion fruit Peach Strawberry Cherry Pear Banana
Piece
4 g
Pack
500 g
Shelf life
450 days
Article
123119
Gluten free Lactose free GMO free Contains gelatine Not vegan
Hearts with centre filled gummies

Hearts with Centre Filled

ART. 123145 · 05-2025

A two-part sweet: a coloured shell over a fruit filling. Each chip below shows shell on the left, filling on the right — the way the sweet is actually built.

Mango / passion fruit Banana / cherry Peach / strawberry Raspberry / black currant
Piece
5 g
Pack
500 g
Shelf life
450 days
Article
123145
Gluten free Lactose free GMO free Contains gelatine Not vegan
Nothing hidden

Read the bag before you buy it

Both articles are free from gluten and lactose, and free from GMO in accordance with EC regulations 1829/2003 and 1830/2003. Neither is vegan — the gummy is set with gelatine, and that is stated plainly rather than buried.

On allergens, both sheets declare no shellfish, egg, fish, peanut, soya, milk, celery, mustard, sesame, lupin or mollusc in the product. Tree nuts and sulphites are noted as present in the wider list; the definitive statement is always the pack in front of you.

The plan for shelf is a QR code on each pack linking to the live specification, so the figures on this page and the figures on the sweet are the same figures.

Per serving · from the spec sheets
ABC & NumbersHearts
Serving8 pc · 32 g6 pc · 30 g
Energy110 kcal100 kcal
Fat0 g0 g
Sodium25 mg25 mg
Carbohydrate25 g23 g
  of which sugars13 g14 g
Protein2 g2 g
Trade & general enquiries

Bring them to South Africa with us

Retailer, distributor, gift buyer, or someone who simply wants a bag — tell us who you are and the South African team will be in touch.

A POPIA consent line will appear here when the form goes live.

Honest scope

Where this page lives

Three of these are the same page reflowing — they exist today and cost nothing extra. The watch is an idea, not a planned build, and it is marked as one.

Desktop
1280 px · Real, built
Tablet
834 px · Real, built
Phone
390 px · Real, built
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