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Located in Normandy, the French SME is a family-owned company. It was founded in 1991, when two master chocolate makers decided to associate. Year after year, they developed their expertise based on a fierce determination to use products coming for most from organic farming and raw materials manufactured under the Fairtrade label or top-quality certifications. They persist in making by hand their pure cocoa butter chocolates, without using any vegetable fat. The chocolate factory offers several ranges of products. Most of them are available all year round and others seasonally: • Fairtrade and Organic chocolates: composed of a wide range of products such as pralines, candied fruits coated, hollows… • Tuiles: milk, white, dark or caramel chocolate with diverse inclusions such as hazelnuts or caramel pieces. • Candied fruits: orange, lemon, ginger or cherry peels, coated with dark chocolate • Chocolates assortment: filled with delicious milk, white or dark chocolate pralines. • Mendiants: dark, milk or caramel flavored and decorated with dried fruits (almonds, hazelnuts, raisins…). • Seasonal mouldings: a collection of original chocolate shapes for Christmas (Santas, caribous, christmas tree…) or Easter (rabbits, hens, bells…). The company is used to work under private label and has the capacity to respond most of the requests in terms of packaging. Thanks to its dynamic sales force, the company is now well established and has a strong presence both on national and international markets. Benefiting from a 10 years’ experience in the international stage, the company is now exporting in Europe, Japan, in the US and in the Middle East. The company wants to develop and strengthen the distribution network in order to increase its export turnover. To this end, it is looking for new partners under distribution service agreements in Europe and manufacturing agreements as the French company is already used to work on private labels.