A bean-to-bar company produces chocolate by processing cocoa beans into a product in-house, rather than merely melting chocolate from another manufacturer. Artisan a list of chocolate bars of dark chocolate and related products made of Mexican cacao. Founding member of the Craft Chocolate Makers of America.
The Madagascar bar and the Dos Rios Palet d’or have received gold medals from the London Academy of Chocolate. Amedei is a luxury chocolate manufacturing company located in Pontedera in the Tuscany region of Italy. Bonajuto is a chocolate manufacturing company located in Modica in the Sicily region of Italy. Utilizes direct trade, paying farmers above fair trade prices for cocoa beans and sharing profit with them. One of the only small-batch chocolate makers in the US to press their own cocoa butter.
Large producer of couverture, used in many chocolate products. It is a founding member of the World Cocoa Foundation, which works to support sustainable cocoa production. The product line includes organic and fair-trade products. Founded in Vevey in 1819 by François-Louis Cailler, oldest factory in Switzerland. Multiple awards from the International Chocolate Awards and the Academy of Chocolate. Castronovo uses heirloom beans from Latin America.
Also, Academy of Chocolate global winner. Semi-finished products are sold under the Portem brand name to foreign markets. The Confectionery Factory manufactures chocolate confectionery namely, chocolate bars, chocolate spread, drinking chocolate and chocolate dragees. Domori is a premium chocolate company headquartered near Turin.
Wedel is owned by Lotte Group. El Rey uses only Venezuelan cacao, fermented and sun dried, and processed locally. Brittle chocolate-flavored candies, caramels, and fine liqueur-filled chocolates. Chocolates is owned by Mars Inc. The company is named after the mother of Forrest Mars, Sr. Founded in Geneva in 1826, Switzerland’s oldest independent chocolate maker.
Favarger gets its cocoa beans from the tiny West African islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. The Karl Fazer Nordic Gourmet chocolates that were launched in 2009 combine the unique Nordic berries — lingonberry, blueberry, raspberry and cloudberry — with cocoa grown at the Equator. Founded in 1908 by Max Felchlin. Freia was made successful by Throne-Holst, who also founded Marabou. It was acquired in 1993 by Kraft Foods, which is now known as Mondelez.
Known for their chocolate frogs, and Ga-Jol liquorice. Acquired in 1972 by Toms International. Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco is named after this chocolate-making family. Guittard makes couverture chocolate using original formulas and traditional French methods, and supplies chocolate to See’s Candies.
