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TCHO is a
In 2006, the company moved to Pier 17, a historic pier built in 1912 and the third-oldest pier on the San Francisco pier. Historically, the pier has been used for transport, military logistics, and trade, including the trade of cacao beans to San Francisco. The TCHO chocolate factory was assembled by a team of engineers using vintage German machines and modern refiners and grinders. In April 2014 TCHO left Pier 17 and moved their offices and factory to Berkeley, California.
TCHO teamed with
chocolate
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maker based in Berkeley
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, California
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, US that promotes itself as working with cacao bean farmers and cooperatives to improve growing, fermentation and drying methods. Its factory and headquarters were formerly located on Pier 17 along the Embarcadero, in San Francisco
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's historic waterfront district, but are now located in the West Berkeley section of Berkeley
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*Berkeley, California, a city in the United States
**University of California, Berkeley, a public university in Berkeley, California
* George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher
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, California
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. In February 2018, it was announced that TCHO would be bought by the Japanese confectionery company Ezaki Glico
, commonly known as just Glico, is a Japanese multinational food processing company headquartered in Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka. It does business across 30 countries, in North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
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History
TCHO was co-founded in December 2005 by Timothy Childs, a technology and chocolate entrepreneur who once developed vision systems for NASA's Space Shuttle program, and Karl Bittong, a 40-plus year veteran of the chocolate industry.
In 2006, the company moved to Pier 17, a historic pier built in 1912 and the third-oldest pier on the San Francisco pier. Historically, the pier has been used for transport, military logistics, and trade, including the trade of cacao beans to San Francisco. The TCHO chocolate factory was assembled by a team of engineers using vintage German machines and modern refiners and grinders. In April 2014 TCHO left Pier 17 and moved their offices and factory to Berkeley, California.
TCHO teamed with Erik Spiekermann
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of Edenspiekermann
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for design and branding. Its packaging design have won awards and honors, including the Academy of Chocolate Gold Award in February 2009, the European Design Gold Award in May 2009, the iF communication design award in August 2009, as well as nominations for the 2009 Cannes Design Lions and 2011 German Federal Design Award.
Products
The company manufacturers two single-origin dark chocolate bars, plant-based chocolate bars, drinking chocolate, cocoa powder, roasted cacao nibs and baking chocolate. It primarily sells its products to United States retailers. They also offer wholesale options and bulk for chocolatiers and makers.TCHO Source
TCHO promotes its direct investment in partnerships with cacao farmers through its TCHO Source Program, where it aims to provide farmers with the technology and know-how in 'open source' fashion. "Flavor Labs" have been installed at co-ops throughout the world for farmers.See also
*List of bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturers
A bean-to-bar company produces chocolate by processing cocoa beans into a product in-house, rather than merely melting chocolate from another manufacturer. Some are large companies that own the entire process for economic reasons; others are small ...
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External links
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