Milka ruling: Bremen court finds 90-gram bar misleading

Milka's 90-gram chocolate bars can mislead shoppers, the Landgericht Bremen ruled on 13 May 2026. Mondelez had cut the filling of some bars from 100 grams to 90 grams in the past year while keeping the packaging size and design unchanged. The court said that setup created an irrefutable deception through a so-called relative Mogelpackung.

Landgericht Bremen case 12 O 118/25

The ruling came in case 12 O 118/25 after the Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg sued Mondelez over Milka chocolate bars. The new nominal filling amount is printed small on the front of the packaging, while the front-side weight information is often covered by cardboard sleeves on supermarket shelves. For shoppers, that means the lower fill can be easy to miss at the point of sale.

The court's decision is not yet legally binding. Mondelez has not been ordered here to change the package, but the ruling gives the consumer group a court finding that the current presentation can mislead buyers when the contents drop without a visible redesign.

Milka and Sanella

The dispute fits a pattern the source links to hidden price increases and relative Mogelpackungen. A similar case went the other way for consumers before: on 13 February 2024, the Landgericht Hamburg issued a ruling in a successful case against Upfield over Sanella after the filling was reduced without adapting the packaging. That earlier ruling, case 406 HKO 121/22, shows how courts can treat unchanged packaging as a separate issue from the lower fill inside it.

For buyers, the practical takeaway is simple: the front of the pack may now carry the only visible warning that a bar has dropped from 100 grams to 90 grams, and even that information can be partly hidden in store displays. Until the ruling becomes legally binding, Mondelez still faces a court finding that its current Milka presentation can mislead consumers at shelf level.