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Chocolat Suchard
Chocolat Suchard was a chocolate factory founded in Serrières (a neighborhood of Neuchâtel) by Philippe Suchard in 1826. It was one of the oldest chocolate factories in Switzerland. History The Suchard chocolate factory took off thanks to his son Philippe (1834-1883), then to his son-in-law Carl Russ (1838-1925), who ran the chocolate company from 1884 to 1924. After Philippe's death in 1884 in Neuchâtel, his daughter, Eugénie Suchard and her husband Carl Russ-Suchard, took over the functioning of his factory. Carl Russ-Suchard opened the first Suchard factory abroad in 1880 in Germany, at Lörrach. The Suchard factory used hydropower of the nearby river to run the mills. A grinding mill consisting of a heated granite plate, and several granite rollers moving forwards and backwards were used to produce chocolate. This design, the melanger, is still used to grind Cocoa bean, cocoa paste. As a result, chocolate became more affordable. Before opening his factory, Suchard real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabrique Rouge Serrières
Fabrique is the second album by English new wave band Fashion. It was produced by Zeus B. Held. The album included the following UK hit singles: "Streetplayer (Mechanik)" which reached No. 46 in April 1982 and "Love Shadow", which peaked at No. 51 in August of the same year. "Move On" and "Something In Your Picture" were also issued as the first and third singles of the album but failed to chart. The album itself peaked at #10 in the charts, spending 16 weeks on the top 100. The album was re-released with additional material in 2004 as ''The Height Of Fashion''. Two songs from the album, "Whitestuff (short cut)" and "You Only Left Your Picture" were used in two Miami Vice episodes, respectively "Evan" from Season 1 and "The Prodigal Son" from season 2. Track listing All tracks written by David "Dee" Harris except where noted. # "Move On" # "Love Shadow" # "Streetplayer – Mechanik" # "Dressed to Kill" # "You Only Left Your Picture" # "Something in Your Picture" (Dee Harri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food & History
''Food & History'' is a multilingual (French, English) scientific journal that is published since 2003. It is the biannual scientific review of the (IEHCA) based in Tours. It publishes papers about the history and culture of food. The review ''Food & History'' is the biannual scientific review of the Institut Européen d'Histoire et des Cultures de l'Alimentation / European Institute for the History and Culture of Food (IEHCA) in Tours, France. Founded by Francis Chevrier, director of IEHCA, in 2003, it is the first journal in Europe, both in its vocation and concept, specialised in the specific field of food history. It aims at presenting, promoting and diffusing research that focuses on food from an historical and/or cultural perspective. The journal studies food history, food archaeology, foodways and food culture from different points of view. It embraces social, economic, religious, political, agronomical and cultural aspects of food and nutrition. It deals at the same ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carambar & Co
Carambar & Co, or CPK (''Carambar Poulain Krema''), is a French confectionery company in founded in 2016. It brings together confectionery brands such as Carambar, Terry's, Lutti, Kréma, La Pie qui Chante, Malabar, Vichy Pastilles, Suchard chocolates, and Poulain chocolate. Carambar & Co is owned by CPK Holdings, which is co-owned by French investment firm Eurazeo and private investors. History In 2016, an investment consortium led by French investment firm Eurazeo bought a set of confectionery brands from American multinational food conglomerate Mondelēz International, and on 2 May that year they were formally amalgamated to form Carambar & Co. The consortium also included Patrick Mispolet and Matthieu Maillot, former president and former CFO respectively of Orangina-Schweppes France, and Pierre Le Tanneur, former director of Spotless Group. The brands purchased by the investors were: * Carambar, makers of the eponymous chocolate caramel bar, from whom the new compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city and state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has Austrians, a population of around 9 million. The area of today's Austria has been inhabited since at least the Paleolithic, Paleolithic period. Around 400 BC, it was inhabited by the Celts and then annexed by the Roman Empire, Romans in the late 1st century BC. Christianization in the region began in the 4th and 5th centuries, during the late Western Roman Empire, Roman period, followed by the arrival of numerous Germanic tribes during the Migration Period. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bludenz
Bludenz (; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ''Bludaz'') is a town in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg with around 15,000 inhabitants. It is the administrative seat of the Bludenz District, which encompasses about half of Vorarlberg's territory. Geography The town is located on the Ill (Austria), Ill River, a direct tributary of the Rhine. It is surrounded by the ranges of the Bregenz Forest Mountains in the north, and by the Rätikon and Silvretta Alps, Silvretta ranges in the south. Bludenz lies at the meeting point of five valleys: Walgau and Montafon (Ill), Brandnertal, Klostertal up to Arlberg Pass, and Großes Walsertal. Bludenz is a popular starting point for hiking and mountain-biking in spring, summer, and autumn. It is located not far from many skiing resorts (e.g., Brand and Lech). Major companies are Mondelēz International (Milka chocolate) and the Brauerei Fohrenburg, Fohrenburg brewery which was established in 1881. History Archaeological finds indicate tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondelez International
Mondelēz International, Inc. ( ) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational confectionery, food industry, food, Holding company, holding, drink industry, beverage and snack food company based in Chicago. Mondelez has an annual revenue of about $26.5 billion and operates in approximately 160 countries. It ranked No. 108 in the 2021 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. The company had its origins as Kraft Foods Inc., which was founded in Chicago in 1923. The present enterprise was established in 2012 when Kraft Foods was renamed Mondelez and retained its snack food business, while its North American grocery business was spun off to a new company called Kraft Foods, Kraft Foods Group, which 3 years later merged with Heinz to form Kraft Heinz. The name Mondelez is derived from the Latin word ("world") and ''delez'', a fanciful modification of the word "delicious." Mondelez manufactures chocolate, cookies, biscuit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry's
Terry's (formerly Terry's of York) is a British chocolate and confectionery brand. The original company was founded in 1767 in York, England, and was part of the city's famous confectionery triumvirate along with Rowntree's and Cravens. The company's headquarters and factory, Terry's Chocolate Works, was closed by Kraft in 2005 and production moved to Kraft factories in Europe. The business returned to the UK in 2019 as Terry's Chocolate Co located in London. Their best known products include Terry's Chocolate Orange and Terry's All Gold box of assorted chocolates which were both introduced in the 1930s. The Terry's business has changed ownership on many occasions. Initially the company became a subsidiary of Forte Group in 1963 before being sold to Colgate-Palmolive in 1977. The company was purchased by United Biscuits in 1982, becoming the company's confectionery arm, before being sold in 1993 to Kraft Foods Inc. The Terry's name became part of Mondelēz International after t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraft General Foods
Kraft Foods Group, Inc. was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, split from Kraft Foods Inc. on October 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It became part of Kraft Heinz on July 2, 2015 after merging with Heinz. The merger was arranged by Heinz owners Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital, was completed on July 2, 2015, forming Kraft Heinz, the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world. History Spinoff of Kraft Foods Group from Kraft Foods Inc. In August 2011, Kraft Foods Inc. announced plans to split into two publicly traded companies—a snack food company and a grocery company. On April 2, 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. announced that it had filed a Form 10 Registration Statement to the SEC to split the company into two companies to serve the "North American grocery business". On October 1, 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. spun off its North American grocery business to a new company called ''Kraft Foods Group'', Inc. The remainder of Kra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altria
Altria Group, Inc. (previously known as Philip Morris Companies, Inc. until 2003) is an American corporation and one of the world's largest producers and marketers of tobacco, cigarettes, and medical products in the treatment of illnesses caused by tobacco. It operates worldwide and is headquartered in the city of Richmond, Virginia. Altria is the parent company of Philip Morris USA, John Middleton Co., John Middleton, Inc., U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, Inc., Philip Morris Capital Corporation, and NJOY, NJOY Holdings, Inc. Altria also maintains large minority stakes in Belgium-based brewer AB InBev and the Canadian Cannabis (drug), cannabis company Cronos Group. It is a component of the S&P 500 and was a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1985 to 2008, dropping due to Corporate spin-off, spin-offs of Kraft Foods Inc. in 2007 and Philip Morris International in 2008. History Altria emerged from Philip Morris USA. The onset of "rebranding" of Philip Morri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Côte D'Or (chocolate)
Côte d'Or () is a producer of Belgian chocolate, owned by Mondelez International. Côte d'Or was founded in 1883 by Charles Neuhaus in Schaerbeek, Belgium, a chocolate manufacturer who used the name "Côte d'Or" (French for Gold Coast) referring to the old name of contemporary Ghana, the source of many of the cacao beans used in chocolate manufacturing. Charles Neuhaus sold Côte d’Or in 1889 to the Buiswal-Leclef family, who merged with the Michiels chocolate company in 1906 to create Alimenta S.A. Côte d'Or was later purchased by Jacobs Suchard in 1987; Jacobs Suchard in turn was purchased by Kraft General Foods in 1990, which forked off its chocolate and confectionery brands into Mondelez International in 2012, so that Mondelez is the current owner of the Côte d'Or brand. Belgians consume 600 million Côte d'Or products a year. The Côte d'Or factory in Halle (near Brussels) used to produce 1.3 million mignonnettes (small chocolate bars—they are now produced in Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Johann Jacobs
Klaus Johann Jacobs (3 December 1936 – 11 September 2008) was a German-born billionaire in the coffee and chocolate industry, with Swiss citizenship. Early life and education He was born on 3 December 1936 in Bremen, Germany. Jacobs attended the University of Hamburg and later Stanford University. Career He started his career in the global coffee and chocolates industries. * In 1962, he became Director of Purchasing and Marketing for the Jacobs AG coffee business. * In 1972 he became General Manager of the company. * In 1982, the company merged with Interfood to create Jacobs Suchard AG, Europe's number one chocolate and coffee business. * In 1987, Jacobs expanded his business in North America with acquisition of Brach's. * In 1990, when most of the consumer-oriented elements of Jacobs Suchard were sold to Philip Morris, Jacobs created with Brach's and non-consumer businesses of Jacobs Suchard a company which is now known as Barry Callebaut. Barry Callebaut is today the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toblerone
Toblerone ( , ) is a Swiss chocolate brand owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods Inc, Kraft Foods). Until 2022, it was produced exclusively in Bern, Switzerland, when a smaller, limited part of the portfolio began production in Bratislava, Slovakia. Toblerone is known for its distinctive shape as a series of joined triangular prisms inspired by the Matterhorn mountain and lettering engraved in the chocolate. "Toblerone" is a portmanteau of "Tobler", the surname of its co-founder Theodor Tobler, and "''Turrón#Italian torrone, torrone''", the Italian language, Italian word for nougat. The company was independent from 1899 until 1970, then merged with Suchard, then with Jacobs (coffee), Jacobs as Jacobs Suchard, then acquired by Kraft Foods, which has been renamed to Mondelez International in 2012. History The Tobler chocolate factory was founded in 1899 by Emil Baumann (1880–1960) & Theodor Tobler (1876–1941) in Bern. At the time, the Swiss chocolate in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
