Chocolate companies

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Noel (company)

Noel Cookies Company

Noel, formally known as Compañía de Galletas Noel S.A. (English: Noel Cookies Company) is a food and beverage company headquartered in Medellín, Colombia.

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Noka Chocolate

Noka Chocolate (stylized NōKA) was an American company, founded by Canadian accountants Katrina Merrem and Noah Houghton and based in Plano, Texas, that marketed itself as "a chocolatier specializing in gourmet chocolate gifts." The company sold its products directly and through its primary retail partner, department store Neiman Marcus.

The company's products were made from chocolate it said was sourced from Venezuela, Trinidad, the Ivory Coast, and Ecuador. It provided its customers with a "Tasting Guideline" in every box. The company's founder said that its products are "not so much candy as a tasting experience." Given the prices charged for the chocolates, one newspaper wrote, "NoKA is not for the faint of heart -- or pocketbook."

In 2006, Business website Forbes.com included NōKA's Vintages Collection among a listing of the world's most expensive chocolates, at $854 per pound.D Magazine called the chocolates "insanely expensive."

NōKA went out of business in 2011.

In December 2006, the blog DallasFood.org published a ten-part series on the company's chocolate products that detailed the company's marketing claims and noted its refusal, unlike many other similar firms, to reveal the source of its couverture (the chocolate from which finished confections are made). It presented research on available couvertures that matched NoKA's descriptions of its product and concluded that NōKA sold an essentially unaltered version of couvertures produced by the French company Bonnat Chocolates while charging more than ten times the price asked by Bonnat. Coverage of the series noted that when purchased directly from Bonnat, these couvertures carried "a price tag substantially under what the credulous pay for NoKA."

The same blog published another article in December 2007 about the claim that the company's products had been chosen as the "Best Chocolate in America" by a taste-testing panel in The Nikkei, which NōKA identified as the "world's largest business daily". However, this panel's original results never appeared in the main edition of Nihon Keizai Shimbun (circulation ~5,000,000); their taste test was published only in the much smaller subsidiary Nikkei American Edition (circulation 12,650) as a paid advertisement.

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Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company

Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company is a chocolate company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Omanhene's chocolate beans come from the forests of Ghana. The difference between Omanhene's chocolate and their competitors (according to the company website) is that Omanhene's chocolate bars are made and processed in Ghana, whereas competitors buy the beans from a tropical country and ship them to countries like Canada or the United States to make chocolate bars.

The Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company was founded in 1991 by Steven C. Wallace and his brother, Jonathan. Steven was an AFS high school student and lived in Ghana for three months in 1978. However, at the age of 29 (in 1991), he returned to Ghana and started a chocolate business. The name Omanhene in the Twi language means the "Paramount Chief".

Omanhene chocolate is a single source chocolate, using only beans from smaller family farmers in Ghana. It produces the chocolate in the same factory where the beans are processed into the main ingredients of chocolate (cocoa butter, cocoa liquor, and cocoa powder). Because of this, their chocolate has the opportunity to be made into a shelf stable finished product much sooner - without the degradation of ingredients that occur when cocoa liquor is stored and transported for months prior to being used to make finished chocolate. The product is not organic.

The factory workers and family farmers have a stake in the Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company.

The company was an early adopter of the UN Global Compact.

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Grupo Nutresa

Grupo Nutresa S.A.

Grupo Nutresa, formerly Grupo Nacional de Chocolates S.A. is a food processing conglomerate headquartered in Medellín, Colombia.

The group's principal activity is operating the food industry with focus on producing, distributing and selling cold cuts, biscuits, chocolates, coffee, ice cream and pasta. The company markets its products under approximately 70 different brands in 65 countries. Other activities include the investment or application of resources or cash under whatever form authorized by law and the exploration of the metal-mechanic and packaging industry.

In 2004, the group began their international expansion, acquiring several companies in Central America and the Caribbean. As of 2008, the Compañía Nacional de Chocolates continue expanding and consolidating their presence in the region. The market value of the company grew by a factor of 25 in the decade leading up to 2010 (to US$6 billion). Though originally a chocolatier, the sale of chocolates contributed only 19% to sales in 2010.

In 1916, Fábrica de Galletas y Confites—a company making biscuits (cookies and crackers) and confectionery—was set up in Medellin, Colombia. In 1925, the company changed its name to Fábrica de Galletas Noel S.A. and again in 1999 to Compañía de Galletas Noel S.A. In 1920, a chocolate-processing company under the name of Compañía Nacional de Chocolates Cruz Roja was founded and later changed its name to Compañía Nacional de Chocolates, S.A. In 1933 this chocolate company bought an interest in the biscuit company paving the way for the formation of the conglomerate. From 1933 to 1958, the group continued to consolidate its distribution network resulting in strengthened national presence and corporate image.

In 1933 the "Sello Rojo" (EN: Red Label) brand was created when the company entered the coffee business. In 1950, with the boom of the coffee industry, Compañía Colombiana de Café S.A.- Colcafé, was created and soon become an important Colombian export company. The first export of any company of the group was in 1961—coffee to Japan.

In 1993, the confectionery company, Compañía Dulces de Colombia S.A. was set up. In 1995, the Organization’s trading companies were established abroad forming what is known today as the Cordialsa network, first in Ecuador and second in Venezuela. The company also made its first investment abroad and expanded its meat-processing business with Industrias Alimenticias Hermo de Venezuela S.A. In 1999, the Organization spun off two of its companies, Noel and Zenú.

In 2003, the holding company Inversiones Nacional de Chocolates S.A. came into being, with important interests in chocolate and coffee businesses as well as the Organization’s food investment company Inveralimenticias (that has holdings in the meat, cookie and confectionery business). In 2004, the organization began expanding into Central America and the Caribbean through the purchase of Nestle’s cookie and chocolate plants in Costa Rica. In 2006, the Organization changed its name to Grupo Nacional de Chocolates S.A. On 1 February 2007, Grupo Nacional de Chocolates purchased Peruvian company Good Foods S.A. and the Winter's brand for US$36 million through its Peruvian subsidiary Compañía Nacional de Chocolates de Perú S.A..

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Organic chocolate

Organic chocolate is chocolate which has been certified organic. As of 2016, it was a growing sector in the global chocolate industry. organic chocolate is a socially-desirable product for some consumers. Major brands, such as The Hershey Company, have begun to produce organic chocolate.

Many, if not most, producers of organic chocolate source their ingredients from certified fair trade cocoa farms and cooperatives. Organic chocolate comes in many varieties, including milk chocolate, white chocolate, and dark chocolate. Major brands of organic chocolate include Britain-based Green & Black's, Hershey-owned Dagoba Chocolate, and Equal Exchange. Less-known retailers include Taza Chocolate, Pacari Chocolate, and Sacred Chocolate, a brand noted for producing raw chocolate.

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Pacari Chocolate

Pacari Chocolate is a chocolate company operating out of Quito, Ecuador. Pacari Chocolate was founded in 2002 by Santiago Peralta and Carla Barboto, who own and operate the company. Pacari Chocolate is the first chocolate company in the world to receive a biodynamic certification from Demeter International. Pacari is family owned and is a bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturer, as well as fair-trade, Kosher, and Certified Organic. Pacari Chocolate products are available in most health food and luxury chocolate outlets in the United States, Europe, South America and Malaysia.

Pacari Chocolate has received numerous national and world awards from chocolate producers and chocolate competitions throughout the United States and abroad.

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Panda (Finnish company)

Panda Oy is a Finnish confectionery company based in Vaajakoski, Jyväskylä. The company was founded in 1920 by SOK (Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta). Panda is known for its liquorice and chocolate products.

In 2005, the company was sold to Felix Abba, which is part of the Norwegian Orkla Group.

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Patchi

Patchi

Patchi is a chocolat in Lebanon. Established by Nizar Choucair in 1974,

Patchi business traces back to 1974, when Nizar Choucair opened one store beginning in Lebanon, his home.

Patchi today, is the leading chocolate brand in the Middle East, winner of ISO 2000 – 1901 year award for quality management.

In July 2008, Patchi collaborated with Harrod's to produce the most expensive box of chocolates. Patchi also creates chocolates customized to local tastes and for local events and festivals.

Patchi is a luxury brand for chocolate and chocolate gifts. It is distinguished with a menu of chocolates with all-natural and premium ingredients. The Patchi Chocolate Menu contains a list of over 50 varieties.

The menu is famous for integrating roasted nuts (hazelnuts, pistachios, almonds), Gianduja, orange peel, dried Strawberry bits, and more. Recently, Patchi introduced 5 new exotic flavors to its menu with Cotton Candy, Cheesecake, Peanut Butter in some of the recipes.

Expansion Network The business is well expanded and properly established at 32 countries spread amongst the globe with a great deal of focus on the Middle East – The Home of Patchi – as well as recognizable presence in North Africa, Asia Pacific, etc....
Countries are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Bahrain, Brunei, Canada (Online), Egypt, France, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,India, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Philippines, Qatar, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States.

As for the boutiques network it consists of 145 boutiques, fairly distributed according to market demand and expertise in the field.

Patchi's online boutique caters to the North American and Canadian markets

Patchi has a network of 5 factories, in: Lebanon, KSA, UAE, Syria & Egypt. Aside from chocolate, Patchi runs 4 other manufacturing divisions, one which produces all packages (printing section), another that produces the Silver Line (Patchi Silver), the porcelain section (creation various fillings for chocolates) and finally the Flower division or in other words the section that caters for the development of chocolate decoration and all other forms of ornaments.

Inside Patchi's Down Town Boutique in Beirut, Lebanon

Patchi Chocolate Counter

Patchi Chocolate Pieces

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Answer 10

Pearson%27s Candy Company

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