Forbes Chocolate is a family-owned company founded in Cleveland in 1901, with Keith Geringer now serving as its third-generation president. Its history includes Benjamin P. Forbes’s late-1920s development of powdered chocolate milk, a breakthrough that changed how flavored milk was made. Today, the company builds on that heritage by developing cocoa powders and custom flavor blends for food and beverage manufacturers.
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Halal Product Certificate from the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America
Star-K Kosher Certified
Fair Trade Certified from Fair Trade USA
Certified Organic from Global Organic Alliance Inc.
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J. Horrocks Design, LLCFamily-owned and operated in Pennsylvania, J. Horrocks Design carries multiple generations of food-industry experience. The family’s roots in the trade reach back to the early 1940s, when Frank Wolf began selling chocolate products to commercial food makers and retailers. Today, the company develops and manufactures customized food products for businesses ranging from small local firms to household-name brands worldwide.311919ELVERSON, PA
Davis ChocolateFamily-owned Davis Chocolate grew from Indiana chocolatier Brent Davis’s part-time experiment into a Mishawaka food manufacturer with a distinctly hands-on approach. Known as Indiana’s only manufacturer turning cocoa powder or liquor into chocolate bars, it controls production in its soy-free facility and also develops custom chocolate for private-label customers.PITTSBURGH, PA
The Hershey CompanyMilton Hershey founded The Hershey Company in 1894, launching a Pennsylvania chocolate business that grew from an effort to make candy an affordable treat into a portfolio of more than 30 confectionery and snack brands. The company continues making chocolate in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where its history stretches back more than 130 years, while also developing options such as plant-based confections for changing tastes.311351HERSHEY, PA
Dure Foods LtdFounded in 1978 from a rented corner of a Brantford warehouse, family-owned Dure Foods now makes dry-blended food powders and provides custom packaging and private-label manufacturing. Its more than 50,000 square feet of blending and packaging capacity includes an in-house quality assurance lab, while the second generation has carried the company forward since 2018. Dure is particularly known for producing hot chocolate for Canadian retail and food-service markets, alongside custom lifestyle formulations.COLUMBUS, OH