Here is a list of bean to bar makers. It is not a list of ethical companies or artisan chocolate makers. It simply means that these companies all make their chocolate all the way from raw cacao beans to the molded bar. This list is the result of an ongoing project conducted at 70%, where members maintain a discussion and make attempts to verify that each company on this list actually makes chocolate from raw beans. The reason for verification is that sometimes companies wish to sound hip and trendy and so they claim to be bean bar. The idea is to have some type of definitive list going of who actually makes chocolate from the bean for RETAIL (not solely commercial, industrial, sale).
Africa
Madecasse (Madagascar)
Claudio Corallo (São Tomé)
Divine Chocolate
Australia
Haigh's Chocolates
Tava (factory is currently not operational)
Zokoko
Europe
Austria
Zotter
Belgium
Barry Callebaut
Pierre Marcolini
Denmark
Carletti
TOMS Gruppen
France
Bernachon
Bonnat
Michel Cluizel
Pralus
Valrhona
Weiss
Germany
Euromar
Hachez
Herza
Ludwig
Ludwig Weinrich
Storck
Italy
Amedei
Casa Don Puglisi
Cioccolato Peyrano
DeBondt
Domori
Ferrero
ICAM
Majani
Spain
Chocovic (now owned by Barry Callebaut)
Natra
Sweden
Malmö Chokladfabrik
Swizerland
Confiserie Berner
Felchlin
United Kingdom
Cadbury-Schweppes
Red Star
Sir Hans Sloane
Willie's Cacao
North America
Canada
Soma Chocolatemaker
United States
Amano
Askinosie
Black Mountain Chocolate
Cacao Atlanta
Cacao Prieto
DeVries
Escazu
Jacques Torres (no longer in production)
Kraft
Lindt (not a US company)
Mars
Mast Brothers
Mindo Chocolate Maker
Nestle (technically not a US company)
Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory
Patric Chocolate
Rogue Chocolatier
Scharffen Berger
Latin America/ Caribbean
AMMA (Brazil)
Chocolates Condor (Bolivia)
Chocolates Para Ti(Bolivia)
Cooperativa Naranjillo (Peru)
Cotton Tree Chocolate (Belize)
Danta Chocolate (Guatemala)
El Castillo del Cacao (Nicaragua)
El Ceibo (Bolivia)
El Rey (Venezuela)
Fenix (Argentina)
Grenada Chocolate Company (Grenada)
Hacienda Bukare (Venezuela)
Kallari (Ecuador)
Momotombo Chocolate Factory (Nicaragua)
Pacari (Ecuador)
Rain Republic Chocolate (Guatemala)
Santander (Colombia)
Tags: bean-to-bar, chocolate-makers
You forgot to include Ki Xocolatl.
Ki Xocolatl is a bean-to-bar manufacturer in Merida, Mexico. They also grow their own cacao in a vast plantation in the heart of the Yucatan peninsula. And they have an office in New York to distribute their chocolates.
This is their website: www.ki-xocolatl.com. This is the site for the Plantacion Tikul: www.ecomuseodelcacao.com. You can get their chocolates from Amazon.com. And if you are interested in wholesale, you can contact them by email at info@casa-catherwood.com or mexicanchocolatecompany@gmail.com.
Louis
Permalink Reply by Brady on March 27, 2011 at 12:00pm Hi Louis,
What is the relationship between Ki Xocolatl and CACEP, a chocolate manufacturer in Tabasco? Is Ki Xocolatl subcontracting CACEP for the manufacturing? FYI, I live in Battery Park City, so I will try to attend the Battery Place Market tasting on April 3.
Brady
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