La Maison du Chocolat
La Maison du Chocolat ( French for The House of Chocolate ) is a French luxury chocolate manufacturer. Legally, it is a Société par actions simplifiée (SAS). The company's headquarters are in Nanterre, west of Paris . The company sells its products exclusively itself.
history
In 1955, the chocolatier Robert Linxe opened a shop in Paris under the name Marquise de Presles , which he sold to Gaston Lenôtre in 1977. He then renamed the company La Maison du Chocolat . Linxe remained with the company to this day.
In 1987 a second branch of La Maison du Chocolat was also opened in Paris. Another store was added three years later on Madison Avenue in New York City . The headquarters were relocated from Paris to Nanterre in 1995. In 1998 and 2004 the company also opened offices in Tokyo and London .
Today the company operates a total of around 30 branches in the metropolitan regions of Paris, Cannes , London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carrie Coolidge: La Maison du Chocolat: Taking the Art of Chocolate to a Higher Level ( Memento of the original of October 27, 2011 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. on luxist.com, February 16, 2010, accessed November 13, 2011.
- ↑ a b Entry in the French commercial register ( Memento of the original dated November 14, 2011 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. , accessed November 13, 2011.
- ↑ a b Histoire d'une Maison on lamasionduchocolat.fr, accessed on November 13, 2011.
