M&M's World

<h2 id="locations">Locations</h2>
<h3>Las Vegas</h3>
<p>The first location opened on the <a href="/facts/Las_Vegas_Strip/pDH2kIzl">Las Vegas Strip</a> in 1997, in the <a href="/facts/Showcase_Mall/LNDHmraC">Showcase Mall</a> next to the <a href="/facts/MGM_Grand_Las_Vegas/wk1k7Mj2">MGM Grand</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> The four-story<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> M&M's World includes a gift shop on the first floor. The shop leads to a 3D movie theater that shows the short subject <i>I Lost My M In Vegas</i>. Also on display are M&M's in nearly every color, and a <a href="/facts/NASCAR_Cup_Series/UJpWM0Ca">NASCAR Cup Series</a> show car with M&M's branding; the car was previously designed to resemble <a href="/facts/Kyle_Busch/fvhmjwId">Kyle Busch</a>'s No. 18 M&M's car until <a href="/facts/Mars%2c_Incorporated/B7xtAY2y">Mars, Incorporated</a> ended its sponsorship. M&M's clothing is sold on the second floor and on the stairs that go up to the second floor are pictures showing how the M&M's characters have evolved over the years painted on the wall.
</p><p>The Las Vegas location received eight million visitors in 2007.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h3>Orlando</h3>
<p>Located in <a href="/facts/The_Florida_Mall/3CrCoXKg">The Florida Mall</a>, the 17,500-square-foot<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> Orlando store was named "international store of the year" for 2005 by the Institute of Store Planners and <i>VM+SD</i> magazine (which covers store design and visual merchandising).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a>
</p><p>In late 2019, <a href="/facts/Mars%2c_Incorporated/B7xtAY2y">Mars Retail Group</a> announced that they would be moving its Florida Mall location to <a href="/facts/Disney_Springs/QAPTsrDC">Disney Springs</a>, with an opening set for 2020.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> The Florida Mall location closed on August 21, 2020, with the opening of the Disney Springs location scheduled for the end of 2020.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a>
</p><p>The Disney Springs location officially opened on January 30, 2021.
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<h3>New York City</h3>

<p>The New York City store is within a 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m2), three-level glass box, in <a href="/facts/Times_Square/MB9V2j7y">Times Square</a>. It includes a 50-foot (15 m)-wide, two-story-high, "wall of chocolate", made up of 72 continuous candy-filled tubes.
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<h3>London</h3>

<p>On 13 June 2011, M&M's World shop in London opened to the public, in <a href="/facts/Leicester_Square/wyry9TWw">Leicester Square</a>. The site was formerly occupied by the <a href="/facts/Swiss_Centre%2c_London/1lADhRAz">Swiss Centre</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a>
</p><p>It is the world's largest candy store, at 35,000 sq ft (3,250 sq metres).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> The retail space was built as part of Westminster City Council's regeneration of the local area, to create a "world class destination", based on the similar remodelling of Times Square New York.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a>
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<h3>Henderson</h3>
<p>Mars Incorporated has a store close to its <a href="/facts/Ethel_M_Chocolate_Factory/jWugmsz7">Ethel M Chocolate Factory</a> in <a href="/facts/Henderson%2c_Nevada/UEzY3AR5">Henderson, Nevada</a>. It is situated near to the plant's <a href="/facts/Ethel_M_Botanical_Cactus_Garden/AK0gyvEr">Ethel M Botanical Cactus Garden</a>, which is one of the world's largest collections of its kind, and is based on the naturalistic <a href="/facts/English_landscape_garden/NPoHHruP">English landscape garden</a> model.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a>
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<h3>Shanghai</h3>

<p>First opened on August 8, 2014,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> it is the only branch of M&M's World in Asia. The 1,600-square-meter store is located in the busy Shanghai Shimao International Plaza. The store re-opened in December 2018 after a remodel.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a>
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<h3>Bloomington</h3>
<p>In 2020, it was announced that <a href="/facts/Mall_of_America/zN9TJmTE">Mall of America</a> in <a href="/facts/Bloomington%2c_Minnesota/HlCk9ra5">Bloomington, Minnesota</a> would be the first M&M's retail store to open in the Midwest, and fourth location in the United States with others in <a href="/facts/Las_Vegas/DLwGjxJt">Las Vegas</a>, <a href="/facts/Orlando%2c_Florida/QeW5fkCp">Orlando</a> and <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> The store officially opened to the public on May 1, 2021.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a>
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<h3>Berlin</h3>
<p>The M&M's Store in <a href="/facts/Berlin/pMTIRNXK">Berlin</a> opened on the <a href="/facts/Kurf%25C3%25BCrstendamm/HMpxCA3l">Kurfürstendamm</a> on October 2, 2021.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180409134806/http://worldchocolateguide.com/shop/mms-world/london/">|| M&M's World London Information</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mymms.com/merchandise/">Official M&M'S World Site</a></li>
<li><a href="https://chainstoreage.com/mars-retail-group-expanding-mms-store-footprint-home-and-abroad">Mars Retail Group expanding M&M’s store footprint — at home and abroad</a></li></ul>

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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:7"><p>Pramik, Mike. "Eye candy: Columbus retail-design firm's latest award-winner a treat for M&M's", The Columbus Dispatch, 2007-02-01, p. E1. <a href="/wiki/The_Columbus_Dispatch" target="_blank">/wiki/The_Columbus_Dispatch</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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