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| | Business Wire: Ghirardelli Chocolate's Factory Planning Gets Sweeter With JRG Factory Scheduling Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Ghirardelli Chocolate, a division of Lindt & Sprungli AG, is America's longest continuously operating chocolate manufacturer and is fully integrated vertically -- processing raw cocoa beans through to finished chocolates, and then marketing these products through their own retail soda fountains and chocolate shops as well as traditional retailers. |
 | | Ghirardelli Chocolate was founded in 1852 and is currently a division of Lindt & Sprungli AG, a $1.4 billion dollar premium chocolate company. |
 | | Ghirardelli's product lines include signature chocolate squares, other fine chocolates, baking chocolate, beverages, confections, and soda fountain items distributed through grocery stores, drug stores, mass merchandisers, specialty stores and department stores as well as thirteen Ghirardelli soda fountain and chocolate shops. |
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