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Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG, [a] doing business as Lindt, [4] is a Swiss chocolatier and confectionery company founded in 1845 [5] and known for its chocolate truffles and chocolate bars, among other sweets. It is based in Kilchberg, where its main factory and museum are located. Lindt is one of the largest Swiss chocolate manufacturers.
Founded in 1836 by David Sprüngli, it has been an independent company from Lindt & Sprüngli since 1892. [1] Today the company is best known for their Luxembourgerli a form of Macarons. Sprüngli currently operates 35 retail and café locations across Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the United Arab Emirates. [2]
The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is an American confectioner, wholly owned by Swiss confectioner Lindt & Sprüngli.The company was founded by and is named after Italian chocolatier Domenico Ghirardelli, [1] who, after working in South America, moved to California.
Lindt Home of Chocolate is also now the largest chocolate museum in the world at 65,000 square feet.
Rudolf Lindt (16 July 1855 – 20 February 1909), often known by his francized name Rodolphe Lindt, was a Swiss chocolate maker, chocolatier and inventor. He founded the Lindt brand of Swiss chocolate and invented the conching machine [ 1 ] and other processes to improve the quality of chocolate.
Chocolat Frey has been a brand since the merger into Delica AG in 2021. This was repositioned in the run-up to the merger because it could not keep up with Lindt. Prices were reduced and products from Lindt and Toblerone were added to the Migros range as of April 2021. [19] Swiss has been supplied with chocolate since 2015 (as of 2021). [20]
The museum is run by the Schokoladenmuseum Köln GmbH. Since March 2006, the Swiss chocolate manufacturer Lindt & Sprüngli has been its partner in producing exhibits. Prior to that the partner was the Cologne chocolate producer Stollwerck, and the museum was formerly known as the Imhoff-Stollwerck-Museum.
Lindt's original conche consisted of a granite roller and granite trough; such a configuration is now called a "long conche" and can take more than a day to process a tonne of chocolate. The ends of the trough were shaped to allow the chocolate to be thrown back over the roller at the end of each stroke, increasing the surface area exposed to air.