Chocolats Halba

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Chocolats Halba is a Swiss chocolate producer based in Pratteln (Basel-Landschaft). It is owned by the Coop group and is essentially sold through their supermarkets. The annual production is about 12'000 tons of chocolate.[1]

The company was founded on May 5, 1933 by Willy Hallheimer and Werner Baer in Zurich as Halba AG. Hallheimer contributed 18,000 francs of the 30,000 francs start-up capital and gave Baer a pledged loan of 12,000 francs for his share. Production started in Baer's apartment with four employees. In 1955 the company moved to Wallisellen. Halba has been producing for Coop since 1960. In 1968, Coop acquired a share of Halba, and in 1972 it took over Halba completely. At the end of 2000, production moved from Wald ZH to Hinwil. Since 2003 the company is called Chocolats Halba and since 2004 it becames only a division of Coop.

In 2013, Chocolats Halba Honduras AG was founded as the first branch in a developing country.

In 2017, Chocolats Halba moved into its new production facility in Pratteln, near Basel, on the Areal Salina Raurica site. The previous locations in Wallisellen and Hinwil were abandoned. In September 2017, Chocolats Halba was merged with the Coop Sunray division.[2] The new company was named Chocolats Halba / Sunray. Chocolats Halba / Sunray is a member of IG Bio.[3]

Coop owns 75 percent of Chocolats Halba S.A. de C.V. in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ The Economics of Chocolate, p. 84
  2. ^ "Chocolats Halba".
  3. ^ "Mitglieder". igbio.ch.
  4. ^ "Dokumentation zur Bilanzmedienkonferenz der Coop-Gruppe" (PDF). coop.ch. 2021-02-16.

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