Chocolats Halba

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Chocolats Halba
legal form
founding May 5, 1933
Seat Pratteln, Switzerland
management Anton von Weissenfluh
Number of employees 278
sales CHF 135 million
Branch Confectionery
Website www.chocolatshalba.ch

Chocolats Halba is a Swiss manufacturer of chocolate products for private labels and industry based in Pratteln near Basel . Chocolats Halba operates its own factory shops, the so-called Schoggihüsli, in Pratteln and at the former factory in Hinwil .

Chocolats Halba is a division of the retail company Coop . Every year, it processes around 16,500 tons of chocolate into bars, pralines or Easter bunnies. Around 40% of the chocolate is delivered to the Coop Group, the rest goes to third-party customers around the world - including in Switzerland, Germany, France, Holland, the USA, Canada, New Zealand and China. In addition to the Coop Swiss Confisa brand, products are also produced for third-party brands and for the processing industry. In 2018, the annual turnover of Chocolats Halba was CHF 135 million. Chocolats Halba generates 80% of its sales with products that carry labels such as Fairtrade Max Havelaar , Bio Suisse , USDA Organic, COR Canada Organic, UTZ or Carbon Neutral Product.

history

The company was founded on May 5, 1933 (the day of the constituent general assembly; the entry in the commercial register was made on May 19, 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 portion. Production started in Baer's apartment with four employees. In 1955 the company headquarters were moved to Wallisellen. Halba has been producing for Coop since 1960. In 1967 the two manufacturers Käppeli and SpoSa (formerly Spoerry and Schaufelberger AG, Wald ZH ) were taken over. In 1968 Coop acquired a stake in Halba. Another milestone followed, the automation of production from 1970. 1972 Coop took over Halba completely. At the end of 2000, production moved from Wald ZH to Hinwil. The company has been called Chocolats Halba since 2003 and has not been a company since 2004, but a division of Coop. Halba AG was renamed Cocoha AG and subsequently dissolved through a merger with Coop Immobilien AG.

In 2013, Chocolats Halba Honduras AG was founded as the first offshoot in a developing country. Since the summer of 2014, Chocolats Halba has only been buying Fairtrade- certified cocoa beans.

In 2017 Chocolats Halba moved into its new production facility in Pratteln near Basel on the Salina Raurica site. The previous locations in Wallisellen and Hinwil were given up. In September 2017, Chocolats Halba was merged with the Coop Sunray division. The new company was named Chocolats Halba / Sunray.

Awards

On April 28, 2018, Chocolats Halba received the Swiss Ethics Award for the "Sustainable Chocolate from Ecuador" project. The joint project by Chocolats Halba and Coop pursues economic, ecological and social goals: u. a. increasing the standard of living, biodiversity and the integration and promotion of young farmers.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anton von Weissenfluh: The Chocolate Manager ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alumni.ethz.ch
  2. ↑ Chocolats Halba. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Chocolate cereal - Home. Retrieved on August 10, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Chocolats Halba. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Chocolats Halba. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Chocolats Halba. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Chocolats Halba. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
  8. ^ Judgment of the 2nd Civil Department of December 6, 1935 i. S. Bosshard versus Hallheimer
  9. ↑ Chocolate & Cocoa: Chocolats Halba - Switzerland ( Memento of the original dated June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theobroma-cacao.de
  10. ↑ Cocoha AG, Wallisellen , entries in the commercial register according to moneyhouse.ch
  11. ↑ Honduras - Chocolats Halba
  12. ↑ Sergio Aiolfi: Coop bundles forces in Pratteln | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 26, 2017, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed August 10, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Chocolats Halba. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
  14. ↑ ▷ Swiss Ethics Award Winner swiss-excellence-forum.ch. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .