The crinkle sound of the gold foil. The rich smell of honey and almond. The unique design of peaks and valleys. And the delicious taste of Swiss chocolate. There is little doubt that since its ...

As Switzerland’s chocolate makers prepare for the lucrative Easter season, they’re grappling with a double challenge: skyrocketing cacao prices and newly imposed U.S. tariffs on Swiss imports. The 31% ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lindt & Sprungli, one of Switzerland's most famous companies, sells 140 ...

If you love Toblerone chocolate bars in all their sweet, Swiss-made glory, you may have to come to a new geographical understanding. The candy can no longer be identified as Swiss because some of it ...

A new study in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that a country’s chocolate consumption correlates strongly with the number of Nobel Prizes its citizens win. According to the author’s ...

Toblerone bars are sold in over 100 countries but are regarded as Swiss chocolate. Well, maybe not anymore. The U.S. brand owner, Mondelez, is moving some of its production out of Switzerland to the ...

But Swiss chocolate sage Michel Baud (who works for Philippe Pascoët) says the numbers are rubbish. “The Swiss do eat a lot of chocolate, yes, but it’s not as much as the numbers say. Most of these ...

With the normally brisk Easter season around the corner, the mood in Switzerland’s chocolate business is bittersweet, thanks to high cacao prices and — now — the newly added U.S. tariffs on ...

Switzerland is a small country that is not known for too many things. It’s got its cheese, its banks, its mountains, its neutrality, its watches, its pocketknives and its chocolate. If any of those is ...

If there's one group of people you can trust to know their stuff about chocolate, it's the Swiss. Recently, a group of Swiss scientists from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), a public ...

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