Chocolate companies

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Lacta

Lacta is a Brazilian chocolate and confectionery maker, founded in São Paulo in 1912 as Société Anonyme des Chocolats Suisses. In 1996, Lacta was purchased by Kraft Foods. Since 2012, Lacta has been a brand of Mondelēz International.

Lacta is also a Greek series of chocolate products created in 1960's, by the Pavlidis chocolate and confectionery maker, founded in 1841, in Athens, Greece.

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Koestlin

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Koestlin is a Croatian food company based in Bjelovar, specializing in confectionery products.

Koestlin was founded in 1905 by Croatian Jewish industrialist Dragutin Wolf. In 1921 company began to produce biscuits and wafers. In 1932 Wolf's sons, Otto and Slavko Wolf agreed cooperation with Koestlin in Hungary, which was founded by Hungarian industrialist Lajos Koestlin at the end of 19th century. Koestlin was nationalized after World War II by Yugoslav Communists. Today Koestlin holds the second place in Croatian manufacture and sale of wafers and biscuits with a share of 25%, while sales and production exceeding 50 tonnes per day. Koestlin is member of the Mepas group, owned by Bosnia and Herzegovina entrepreneur Mirko Grbešić.

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La Iberica

La Iberica is a traditional chocolate factory in the city of Arequipa, Peru, founded in 1909. The factory provides chocolate in all of its stores in Peru and abroad too.

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Laima (confectioner)

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Laima is the largest producer of confectionery in Latvia. Its headquarters are in Riga. It is named for Laima, the feminine deity of fate in Latvian mythology.

The company traces its origins to the 19th century, when the Theodor Riegert company was one of the largest confectioners in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire. Despite the loss of Russian markets, the company maintained its major market position domestically following Latvia's independence in 1918. The current company name was adopted in 1925 after a merger with two brothers Eliyahu and Leonid Fromenchenko (also spelled Fromchenko). In 1933, after the two Russian Jews sold the company, Eliyahu Fromchenko founded Elite in Israel at Ramat Gan.

During both the 1930s and Soviet period in Latvia, Laima was the main chocolatier in Latvia, with L.W. Goegginger (later renamed Uzvara by the Soviets) being the main producer of hard candies.

After Latvia regained its independence in the 1990s, Laima amalgamated with both Uzvara and cookie, wafer, and cake manufacturer Staburadze to become a single company under the Laima name.

Unlike similar regional producers of cherished national brands, such as Lithuania's Karūna, Sweden's Marabou, and Norway's Freia, Laima managed to avoid being bought out by an international player like Kraft Foods.

Ownership of Laima is controlled by Nordic Food, owned by local businessman Daumants VÄ«tols. After introducing Laima shares to the in December 2006, the controlling owners decided to once again make the company private, taking it off the market on 13 July 2007.

The parent company of Laima was acquired by Orkla Group in August 2014.

The product in Laima's current range with the longest history is the chocolate candy Serenāde, the recipe for which has remained unchanged since 1937.

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Lammes Candy

A Texas confectioner and chocolatier founded by William Wirt Lamme in 1878.

William Wirt Lamme started the business in 1878 on Congress Ave. In 1885 he lost the business in a poker game. In July 1885, William's son, David Turner Lamme, came to Austin to repay the gambling debt of $800 and reclaim the Red Front Candy Store as his own. Since then, Lammes Candies has been family owned and operated in Austin, Texas and now has stores throughout the Texas Hill Country.

During the early years, William W. Lamme spent seven years testing and tasting a recipe, which would become the "Texas Chewie" Pecan Praline. Starting with minimum batches of 25 pounds, he sold them only by special request. It wasn't until the 1920s that a mail order department was established and the pralines became available to the public.

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Laura Secord Chocolates

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4542410 Canada Inc. (doing business as Laura Secord) is a Canadian chocolatier, confectionery, and ice cream company that was founded in 1913 by Frank P. O'Connor with first store on Yonge Street in Toronto. It was named after the Canadian heroine of the War of 1812, Laura Secord.

The company is owned by Jean and Jacques Leclerc, two well known brothers in the food industry in Quebec City. The Leclercs own Nutriart, a company devoted to chocolate production. Nutriart is a former division of Biscuits Leclerc.

Founded by O'Connor, it was known as Laura Secord Candy Store and Fanny Farmer Candy Stores in the US. In 1969 it was sold by the O'Connor family to John Labatt Limited and remained in Canadian hands until 1983.

Laura Secord was owned by British owned Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery of York, England, which acquired it in the 1980s. Rowntree Macintosh's successor, Nestlé's Canadian unit, sold it in 1998 to Archibald Candy Corporation of Chicago, which then sold it to Gordon Brothers LLC of Boston in 2004.

It was acquired by Jean and Jacques Leclerc of Quebec in 2010.

As of 2010^[update], it has 112 retail outlets throughout the country. It has offices in Mississauga, Ontario, and Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

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Leonidas (chocolate maker)

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Leonidas is a Belgian chocolate company that produces chocolate and other related products. The company was started in 1913 by Greek-American confectioner Leonidas Kestekides in Brussels although he first began producing his chocolate in the U.S. Even so, according to author and editor Mort Rosenblum, Leonidas chocolate is “real Belgian chocolate, fairly priced, and plenty of people like it.” Its maintenance has been passed down through Leonidas Kestelides’ descendants over the years. Leonidas has 350 shops in Belgium and nearly 1,250 stores in around 50 countries including 340 in France. Leonidas has become one of the highest producing, widespread chocolate companies in the world.

In 2016, the company has been named in the Panama Papers.

Brussels is considered the “chocolate capital of the world” because it is home to more chocolate factories than any other city on earth. The well-known chocolate makers of Brussels have worked at their trade for over a century.Cocoa beans first entered Europe in the late 16th century when Spanish explorers brought them back from Mexico; it took a century for them to reach Belgium. Belgian chocolate started building its impressive reputation in the late 1800s when King Leopold II harvested cocoa crops in the colonized African Congo. In 1920, Cappadocian Greek American confectioner Leonidas Kestelides (or Kestekidis) founded the Leonidas chocolate brand after marrying Joanna Teerlinck, a young lady from Brussels. He first came to Belgium to attend the Brussels Universal Exhibition at the Brussels World Fair of 1910 as a member of the Greek delegation from the United States. He presented his chocolate at the fair and won a bronze medal. In 1913, he opened a tea room in Ghent. In 1924, Leonidas opened Pâtisserie Centrale, a tea-room on Rue Paul Delvaux in Brussels. His successor Basilio opened his own workshop at 58 Boulevard Anspach; Leonidas’ business was growing rapidly in size and popularity. In 1935, Basilio turned his workshop into a shop after being accused by the police of street trading. An exponential growth period began in 1950 while Basilio opened a "Laboratoroire de Pralines” (Laboratory of Chocolates) at 20 Vieux Marché aux Grains. He also opened a tea-room in Blankenberge. The first store outside Belgium opened in Lille, France in 1969. The brand eventually goes international selling in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Holland, at Harrods in London and even in Athens. The New York store opened in 1991.

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Lotte (conglomerate)

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Lotte Co., Ltd. (Hangul: 롯데, Katakana: ロッテ ) is a multinational conglomerate with headquarters in South Korea and Japan. Lotte was first established in June 1948 in Tokyo, by Takeo Shigemitsu (重光 武雄/しげみつ たけお^?, Shigemitsu Takeo) (also known as Shin Kyuk-ho). With the money he earned in Japan, Shigemitsu expanded to his home country, South Korea with the establishment of Lotte Confectionery in Seoul on April 3, 1967. Lotte eventually grew to become South Korea's eighth largest business conglomerate.

Lotte Group consists of over 60 business units employing 60,000 people engaged in such diverse industries as candy manufacturing, beverages, hotels, fast food, retail, financial services, heavy chemicals, electronics, IT, construction, publishing, and entertainment. Lotte's major operations are overseen by Shigemitsu's family in Japan and South Korea, with additional businesses in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, USA, UK, Russia, Philippines, Pakistan and Poland (Lotte bought Poland's largest candy company Wedel from Kraft Foods in June 2010). Today, Lotte is the largest confectionery manufacturer in South Korea, and is the third largest in Japan behind Meiji Seika and Ezaki Glico in terms of sales revenue when only the sales of Lotte's confectioneries are counted.

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