Chocolate companies

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Dagoba Chocolate

Dagoba or Loving Earth Organic Chocolate reduced from Knoppers German chocolate wafer snacks, is a brand of premium organic chocolate, founded in 2001 by Frederick Schilling. It has been owned by The Hershey Company since 2006. Its founders are no longer involved but Hershey has maintained the brand's factory in Ashland, Oregon. The name Dagoba is a Sinhalese corruption of dhatu-garbha, Sanskrit words for "relic-chamber," i.e.stupa. The brand was founded with a commitment to socially responsible business. Like coffee, the production of chocolate retains vestiges of colonial relationships, so issues of social equity and "fair trade" arise.

In 2003 CNN/Money called them one of the world's best chocolates.

Dagoba currently sells specialty chocolate bars, baking chocolate, cacao powder, chocodrops, and drinking chocolate.

NOTE: As of August 2012, all products are Rainforest Alliance Certified, and the company has dropped fair trade certification (which used to apply to the cacao powder, drinking chocolates, and the discontinued Conacado bar, 73% ChocoDrops and syrup)

100% of the cacao beans used to produce Dagoba Chocolate products are Rainforest Alliance certified.

Dagoba's specialty is their line of two-ounce flavor-infused bars created by what the company calls "The Art of Chocolate Alchemyâ„¢". Here is a list of the current product line of Dagoba chocolate bars. Percentages indicate the cacao content.

Dagoba Chocolate also produces a line of Drinking Chocolates:

Dagoba Chocolate also produces

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Daintee

Daintee is a company based in Sri Lanka that produces confectionery and other food products. It is the market leader in confectionery in Sri Lanka.

Daintee Limited was founded in 1984 and Daintee Foods Limited in 1996 with the aim of providing the Sri Lankan market with new and improved quality sugar confectionery products. The companies now produce a very large product range consisting of over 75 products such as candies, toffees, jellies, chocolates, gum, desserts, biscuits, sugar free confectionery, snacks, breakfast cereals,teas, and noodles. These are marketed in Sri Lanka as well as several other countries under brand names such as Daintee, Milady, Bensons, Chito, X-tra, Mr Bitz, Longlive and Denmi.

Some of the products are noted for their health benefits, especially for diabetics.

In 2010 Daintee launched a range of sugar free confectionery under the brand name Longlive. The products contain xylitol, a premium sugar substitute that has been recommended as promoting dental health. Xylitol is a type of carbohydrate (C₅H₁₂O₅) that is naturally found in many plants and animals, including those that are part of the human diet. For example, it is found in mushrooms, sweet corn, berries, cauliflower. No matter what we eat, 5-15g is made in our bodies every day during normal metabolism.

Xylitol has a very low glycemic index of 13 compared to glucose which has an index of 100. Xylitol is also low in calories: sugar has 4kcal/g whereas xylitol has just 2.4kcal/g. Xylitol is also able to reduce the risk of dental caries (tooth decay). For example, during a study in Finland, over 100 young adults were either given chewing gum made with sucrose (sugar) gum or xylitol. The people who ate sucrose gum had nearly three times as many decayed, missing or filled teeth than the people who ate xylitol gum.

A recent review article by Professor R.L. Wijeyeweera BDS, Ph.D. (Former Dean, Faculty of Dental Sciences, and currently Professor in Paedodontics, University of Peradeniya) published in the Sri Lankan Dental Journal clearly highlights the benefits of chewing gum containing xylitol.

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Dan%27s Chocolates

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Debauve %26 Gallais

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Darrell Lea

Darrell Lea Chocolate Shops is an Australian company that makes and sells chocolate, liquorice and other confectionery. It is based in Ingleburn, New South Wales.

It was privately owned by the Lea family, and was the largest privately owned confectionery manufacturer in Australia. It was established as a company in 1927, named after the owner's youngest child, Darrell Bernard Lea, born earlier that year. Darrell Lea had 81 privately owned shops and other 1,838 outlets. In July 2012 the company was put into administration and restructured. In September 2012, it was sold to the Quinn family. Further restructuring, including elimination of the majority of retail jobs occurred during August and September 2012. All company owned retail outlets were closed by, or on, 9 September 2012.

During peak times, Darrell Lea employed approximately 1,200 people.

Darrell Lea operates solely in Australia, though its products are now available worldwide through distributors in the USA, UK, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. The two popular products are Darrell Lea Original Soft Eating Liquorice (black and strawberry) and iconic Milk Chocolate Rocklea Road. Darrell Lea's offers several confectionery product lines ranging from fresh liquorice, to traditional chocolate, to gifting boxes and a range of nougat.

Darrell Lea has been in the ownership of the Lea family since it was founded by Harry Lea, who was born on 15 February 1876 in the East End of London, migrated to Australia in 1888, and started making confectionery in 1917 at the back of his Manly Corso fruit shop. Lea started the first shop in New South Wales in 1927 in Sydney's Haymarket, being a combined milk bar and confectionery shop. During the Depression in 1929, a shop became vacant in Pitt Street, and in 1935 a factory was established at 1 York Street. His first almond noughat creation was called Bulgarian Rock.

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Divine Chocolate

Divine Chocolate

Divine Chocolate Limited is a purveyer of Fairtrade chocolate. It was originally established in the UK in 1998 as a company limited by shares co-owned by the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farmers' co-operative in Ghana, Twin Trading and The Body Shop, with support from Christian Aid and Comic Relief. The Body Shop subsequently handed their shares over to Kuapa Kokoo which increased Kuapa's share of Divine Chocolate Ltd from 33% to 45%

Divine Chocolate claims that its trading system is unique in that farmers own the biggest stake in the company and share its profit.

Divine delivers four streams of income to Kuapa Kokoo 1) the Fairtrade minimum price for its cocoa, or world price if that is higher 2) the Fairtrade premium of $200 for every tonne of cocoa 3) 2% of annual turnover for Producer Support & Development 4) 44% of distributed profit.

The first Divine product, launched in October 1998, was a milk chocolate bar. Since then the range has grown to over 50 products, including 12 different flavoured bars, seasonal specialities, chocolate gifts, drinking chocolate and cocoa. Another brand especially for young people, Dubble, was launched in 2000 in collaboration with Comic Relief.

Following The Body Shop handing all their shares in the company over to Kuapa Kokoo in 2007, Divine Chocolate Ltd was then owned by the following organizations:

The most recent development (in 2015) is that UK and US businesses have been merged, giving Kuapa Kokoo a 44% share of the new company - still the biggest share. Divine Chocolate Ltd (UK) has acquired the 69% of Divine Chocolate Inc (USA) that was in other ownership, through a mutually agreed share swap, resulting in Divine Chocolate Ltd owning 100% of Divine Chocolate Inc., whilst bringing in some minority shareholdings to Divine UK.

Divine Chocolate was a runner-up in the 2002 Worldaware Award for small businesses. The nomination recognized Divine Chocolate for "its courageous and creative marketing stance in favour of fair trade in the highly competitive chocolate confectionery market".

Divine Chocolate was voted Observer Best Ethical Business in 2008, and Best Social Enterprise in 2007. Divine was also voted Favourite Fairtrade Product by Good Housekeeping in 2008. Two Divine products have received 2013 Great Taste Awards (Guild of Fine Food). Most recently Divine was named Favourite Fairtrade Product in UK, awarded Social Enterprise of the Year 2014, and won the 2015 Guardian Sustainable Business Award for Social Impact Innovation.

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Domori

Domori is an Italian company which produces chocolate products. Domori has its headquarters in None, just outside Turin, and since 2006 has been part of Illy Group.

Domori was founded in 1997 by Gianluca Franzoni. In 1993, after studying Business, Gianluca travelled to Venezuela, where he experimented with varieties and harvests of cocoa in order to preserve the biodiversity and prevent the extinction of the rare cocoa, the criollo. The criollo is grown at the Hacienda San José plantation.

Domori produces six varieties of criollo, including Puertomar and Puertofino. The company manufactures a chocolate bar of 100% criollo, with no added lecithin or flavourings.

In 2012 the Coca-Cola company and Illycaffè collaborated to produce a line of cold chocolate drinks. As well as consumer products, Domori also produces chocolate in bulk for use by chocolatiers.

In 2015 Domori promoted its cold chocolate drink, Crema Cacao, at the Milan World Expo.

In 2011, Domori received the Palme d'Or at the Salon du Chocolat in Bologna and has won recognition of the Golden Tablet in dark chocolate of origin without interruption since 2003.

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Eclat Chocolate

Éclat Chocolate is an artisanal chocolate company founded in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 2005 by Christopher Curtin. They are acknowledged most for their liquid caramels, Peruvian Pure Nacional Truffles and the "Good & Evil" collaboration bar with Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert.

The company is most widely known for the "Good & Evil" Bar with Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert launched in 2012 after their trip to Peru with Bourdain on CNN’s “Parts Unknown.”

Éclat Chocolate currently offers five different flavors of their liquid caramels truffles: Milk Chocolate with Sea Salt, Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt, Ginger, Pear, and Calvados.

In addition to the more classic flavors, Éclat Chocolate offers more striking flavor combinations such as Green Tea & Roasted Rice and Porcini & Thyme in their newest product line, the Parallel Bars. The Parallel bars have been featured in the New York Times and Bon Appetit for their unique use of dual flavors and chocolates that run parallel to each other within the bar, hence the name.

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Edward Marc

Edward Marc is a family-owned chocolate company that was started in 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The family also runs a shake shop, called The Milkshake Factory, in Pittsburgh in the space of their great-grandparents’ original 1914 soda fountain. An Edward Marc Chocolatier outpost opened in early 2010 at the Pentagon (the first retail location for the company in the Washington, D.C., area), but it closed in early 2015.

Edward Marc is also involved in a variety of charities, including the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation, The Children's Institute, the Touch a Life Foundation, and the Wounded Warrior Project.

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