The fascinating history of skittles is a is an interesting one. Skittles had its name from a sport that has the same name. It is name after that because it is similar to sweet to items that us used in the sport. Skittles were created by a person name Jack Candies. He worked for the British company Mars incorporated. He had first introduced it in the year 1971. Though it was finally commercialized in the year 1974. Over the years the popularity of skittles grew rapidly which led the United States to production on skittles in the year 1982.