Founded at the start of the 20th century in Bar-sur-Aube, Jules JACQUOT’s small cake and sweet shop made biscuits, gingerbread, ice cream and sugared almonds. In 1914, Pauline JACQUOT, his widowed wife, decided to produce on a larger scale and in 1920 founded the “Etablissements Veuve JACQUOT et Fils”, in rue Beauregard in Troyes, making sweets and chocolates. After the second world war, her sons, Paul, Henri and Marcel, took over and steered the business towards “festive chocolates, in all its forms!”. |
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| The next 50 years saw growing industrialisation in the “seasonal chocolate” field, enabling the company to acquire production capacity and to develop sales in France and abroad:
4 industrial activities are developed:
- “hollow” aluminium figures: Easter eggs, milk chocolate Father Christmases, etc.
- decorated figures: eggs, chicks, rabbits, Saint-Nicolas, etc.
- milk chocolate advent calendars with surprises;
- chocolate specialities and assorted gift boxes: a number of festive chocolate recipes: filled eggs and shapes, orangettes, cherry liqueurs, chardons, pralines and ganaches, and since 2002, new recipes by a “Best Craftsman of France”
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The company beats to the rhythm of Easter and Christmas and offers consumers a constantly new and wide collection of chocolate combining quality, authenticity, creativity and fantasy for the delight of children and adults!
Today, the company achieves annual turnover of € 120 million (a quarter of which is made in 70 foreign countries). In 2005 it employed 600 permanent staff and up to 450 seasonal staff.
Paul, Philippe and Pierre Pascal JACQUOT manage the business. |
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