Ghirardelli Chocolate Company 🍫
Once home to a chocolate king 🤴
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, who, after working in South America,
moved to California.
The
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company was
incorporated in 1852, and is the third-oldest chocolate company in the
US, after Baker's Chocolate and Whitman's.