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The Chocolate Maker That Burned Down, Then Went Sugar-Free
A five-alarm fire took Barchemy's main plant in 2022. Three years later the Donora, Pennsylvania ingredient shop runs three facilities, quietly supplies the chocolate inside better-for-you bars, and has private equity money behind it.
The €1.5 Billion Company Hiding Inside Your Dessert Case
IRCA Group does not sell the cake. It sells the confidence that the cake will rise, shine and taste the same on the thousandth batch - a century-old Italian formula now scaled across 19 factories and more than 7,000 products.
See's Candies
A century after Mary See's face first went on the box, the California chocolatier remains Warren Buffett's favorite lesson in what a brand is worth.
Mondelēz International
The company that turned Oreo, Cadbury and Toblerone into a $38.5 billion snacking empire has one job: be the thing you reach for between meals - in 150 countries, at any hour.