Hachez Chocolate The Bremer Chocolade-Fabrik HACHEZ & Co. was established by Joseph Emile
Hachez, a chocolatier of Belgian origin, on July 1, 1890. Since that day, fine
HACHEZ chocolate articles have been created at the company's Westerstrasse
headquarters in the heart of Bremen. The genesis of our "Autumn Leaves"
illustrates the 'organic' way the company has grown.
One autumn day in 1923, the company proprietor (incidentally, the grandfather
of the current co-owner) found inspiration in the leaves that wafted down as he
strolled through the park. He immediately resolved to recreate the fascinatingly
intricate form of these leaves in chocolate.
On that day, a truly
classical idea was born, one that spawned many equally imaginative products in
the years that followed.
Today, the Bremer Chocolade Fabrik HACHEZ
remains one of the world's foremost manufacturers of premium chocolate
products. As early as the seventeenth century, Ecuador's Gulf of Guayaquil gained its
reputation as the leading growing region for top cocoa varieties. Today, the raw
ingredients for the chocolate products still come from this area.
After being
harvested by hand, the beans are left to dry - shielded by layers of banana
leaves under the Latin American sun. During this period, they also undergo their
first phase of refinement: fermentation. Even at this stage, they are already
developing their essential aromatic substances.
The cocoa beans are then
filled into fine jute sacks and transported across the ocean to Bremen. |