Final Project:
Student: Rachel Brito
Professor: Ileana Porges
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company:
- People love chocolate, but how many people know the country's second oldest chocolate company is Ghirardelli?
- This company was founded by Domenico Ghirardelli, in June 1852.
- The headquarter of the Ghirardelli is in San Francisco.
- Domenico's father was a spice merchant in Genoa, Italy. In his teens, he apprenticed at Romanego's, a noted chocolatier in Genoa.
Article: The Ghirardelli Story
1- Ghirardelli Chocolate Company was founded in June, 1852.
2- The headquarter of the company is in San Francisco.
3- Ghirardelli is the second oldest chocolate company in the United States.
This article explains us that in 1866 the company not only sold chocolate but spices and coffee to Japan, China, Mexico and United States. In this same year, Ghirardelli was importing 1000 pounds of cocoa seeds a year. During 1892, the founder Domenico Ghirardelli retired as head of the company and was replaced by his 3 sons. In 1900 the company was selling only chocolate and mustard, having sold its coffee and spices businesses. Later on in 1965 San Francisco declared Ghirardelli Square an official city landmark. Lindt and Sprungli from Switzerland acquired this company in 1998. The products of this company are baking chocolate, brownie mix, boxed chocolates, bulk products, chocolate squares, cocoa and beverages. It shows us its rich heritage, innovative products and the high quality of them.
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Source Citation (MLA 7th Edition)
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http://www.dairyfoods.com/ext/resources/Food-Photos/Ice_Cream_images/2016/Carvel-Ghirardelli-limited-time-flavor-900.jpg?1467398614
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Source Citation (MLA 7th Edition)
Lawrence, Sidney. "The Ghirardelli story." California History 81.2 (2002): 90+. Academic OneFile. Web. 22 July 2016.
Video: A Day in the Life at Ghirardelli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbNN9EXyEuM
The video shows us how proud the employees of this company are, because they feel valued in Ghirardelli, and they believe in its products. They are passionate about their jobs, because it is something that they spend almost as much time as their social life. These employees do a lot of processing with chocolate. They love what they do, helping develop these products. Another satisfaction of the workers is to taste the products they make and be able to recognize the best quality of them! These workers spend hours as a family, making their work fun and exciting. People work together and they are all pushing toward the same goal: make the chocolate absolutely as perfect as they can.
Conclusions:
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is very important not only because of its rich heritage, innovative products and the high quality of them; but also because this company prides itself on community involvement in aiding local public non profit organizations through in kind donations of chocolate products. This company has established guidelines to follow when considering eligible organizations due to the frequency and extent of recent submissions.
Ghirardelli favor advocate in the interests of children and families.
They also participate in the Chocolate Festival, where 100% of the profits are donated to the non profit project Open Hand, which is a non profit organization that provides meals with love to seniors and the critically ill.
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