At present 50% of the company’s chocolates in Canada came from the U.S., and the rest from Europe.
“We are able to source 100% from Europe,” Lechner told Reuters.
Lindt, whose products include Lindor chocolate balls, has already built up inventories in Canada from the U.S. to give it time to change its supply chain, which it expects to complete by the middle of the year.
Chief Financial Officer Martin Hug said it would be slightly more expensive to transport chocolate to Canada from Europe but it would cost less than if tariffs were imposed.
I would love to see more companies move in this direction. It’s not perfect, but at least they are trying, and I think that’s great.
This may be necessary even if tariffs do not go into effect since many Canadians will be boycotting US produced goods as long as Trump is alive.
Wait, is that why Lindt chocolates don’t taste the same in the USA?
Not to sound like a shill, but I was surprised when Americans on Reddit would say it was nothing special. I didn’t even think they’d have a separate American product chain.
Over here it’s not the cheapest or best chocolate but it’s probably the best chocolate you can reliably find in any grocery store.
Also. American chocolate isn’t bottom of the barrel for me. I’ll take a Hershey’s white chocolate cookie thing over no name Syrian “chocolate” with RGB bloom and a barely-perceptible gumminess not even a mother could love. When I was a kid, the shops were full of questionable cheap Syrian candy.
We’ve actually had it pretty good in Lebanon pre-2019 when it came to European chocolate and candy. And occasionally if you knew where to shop, American soft drinks. American candy isn’t it, but American liquid candy? I’d be 900 kilos if I didn’t have to pay extortion prices for American Dr. Pepper. The British stuff we sometimes get just isn’t the same.
Edit: I just noticed what community this was in. Oops, was just scrolling through All. Sorry if this is a bit out of place. Good luck Canadians!
If different means like wax and shortening, then yes.
I thought it would belong to one of those food industry behemoths but it’s actually Independent, headquarters in Switzerland and majorly owned by themselves.
I’m Swiss and my Uncle works for Lindt.
One fun fact about Lindt is that the vast majority of their employees work in France, because it’s cheaper. It’s mostly headquartered in Switzerland to keep the “Swiss Choclate” branding and because it was historically swiss.
I plan on visiting the lindt holy land one day. Like the headquarters, been to the country once already.
Just make sure to follow whatever arbitrary rules the tour has.
You don’t want them to have to stretch or press you.
Well that’s the end of that. Once they get used to Lindt they’ll never go back to chocolaty American goodness.
Trump: “We’ll charge Canada a tariff on European goods and make Mexico pay for it.”
MAGA: Yeaaahhhhhhh!!!
The one MAGAtard with half a brain: “Wait, what? That doesn’t…” [get’s angry glares]… “I mean, Yeaaahhhhhhh!!!”
Stop putting milk in your dark chocolate, and I’ll start caring.
They do make 100% dark chocolate, it tastes like you would imagine.
it tastes like you would imagine.
Dead inside?
Like a used coffee puck, so yeah, basically
That’s because it’s over roasted. Too dark. It’s the same reason Starbucks uses so much milk and sugar in all their coffee drinks. Extremely dark roasted anything tastes bitter like burnt toast.
If you want more sophisticated, less bitter dark chocolate you need to get lighter roasts made from single source cacao. That’s not a product Lindt cares about offering so you end up having to get it from much smaller chocolate makers.
I love their 90% bars… I buy them by the 15 pack and need to restock them every month.
90% is good, not my favourite but I’ll have it every so often!
This. Ive eaten 100% chocolate and its extremely bitter and a very small bite is enough for a very very long time. Its the cream in milk that makes it that good…
Or you know… Plant based milk.
It’s not really their business, most consumers ask for dairy milk in their milk chocolate.
There is some very good vegan chocolate out there that isn’t Lindt.
…but dark chocolate is not milk chocolate, it’s dark chocolate.
This is fantastic news. More of this needs to happen to show that shaved ape what happens when you act without thinking.
They need to bring the dairy-free ones over from Europe!
A quick heads up that some suppliers pause chocolate shipping when it gets hot (and melty) so stock up while it’s still cold
Despite modest efforts to prevent it, Lindt exploits child labour. It is very difficult to source ethical chocolate. Many of the products from Canadian manufactures exploit actual slaves, both adult, and children. And of course, milk requires rape, torture, and murder of individuals to produce.
I’m sorry, you had me up until whatever you just said about milk, did I miss something??
The cow must be impregnated for it to produce milk, repeatedly if milk production is to be sustained.
Modern cows are genetic freaks that produce ludicrous amounts of dairy compared to non domesticated bovine variants. this can be quite painful for the animal. Not to mention the unnatural methods of collecting the milk which can and does result in injury. Plus the emotional stress of being separated from her calf more or less as soon as it’s born.
Once you have stimulated dairy production with pregnancy the resulting calf is surplus to requirements so is usually killed if it is male, or is pressed into dairy production like its mother if female.
Before i start getting comments, no i’m not a vegan. i’m just conscious of where my food comes from
so is usually killed if it is male
this is said as though they are just killed and left to rot. the vast majority are brought to full weight before slaughter
Vegans will never give you an honest argument. It’s all lies, smoke and mirrors or just some emotional appeal.
As herd animals, cows are at least as socially sophisticated as we are, arguably more in some ways. They are capable of receiving trauma the same as we are. I don’t have evidence that cows suffer sexual trauma in “rape racks” (as the industry shockingly calls them), but there is ample and undeniable evidence that when their calves are taken, they understand exactly what they have lost. Farmers report that the mothers spend weeks or even months in distress, bellowing and crying actual tears like any human mother would. They deliver a single calf after nine months, and they have the same bond that we do.
People need to know this, they need to understand this. They need to comprehend the choices that they are making, though the true consequences of their choices are intentionally hidden from them. When I finally understood what I had been doing, I was filled with such horror, sorrow, and regret, it was unbearable. I can never take back what I have done, and I wish I had anyone who could have helped me see it sooner.
Your ignorance has been induced to control you and compel you to be cruel and violent, doing things that are contrary to the values that you wish to hold.
And your ignorance has been induced to control you and compel you to be a clown. Go read a book, eat a burger and shut up.
cows aren’t raped, or tortured.
It’s really hard bringing slaves to Canada. So they’ll keep them in Africa.
neither the us nor europe are where chocolate comes from
Chocolates means the final product.
Chocolate is the base ingredient.
So the chocolates come from Europe but yes, the chocolate does not.
Wasn’t “chocolate the product” designed in Europe by mixing cacao from Africa, sugarcane from americas, and milk from Europe? Making chocolate a product of colonialism…
Sure, dark chocolate is mostly cacao, so could be produced where cacao grows… But the most popular chocolate flavor around me in Canada is milk chocolate (less than 40% cacao), mostly sugar and butter. Where should this be produced?
The chocolate end product is mixed in Europe, hence European chocolate. Thats all Im getting at. Not trying to he rude. I just am not sure what youre saying.
Oh, i was referring to something I noticed recently: There seems to be a growing movement asking for “decolonization” of chocolate, to bring more of the profit from chocolate sales into the countries where caco grows.
I think it raises an interesting ethical question when it comes to a product in which the key ingredients don’t all come from the same place.
On the one side, I totally agree that cacao producers have historically been abused by European chocolate companies, and they should rightfully collect more benefits from this incredibly nice product! Some of these countries even started to block export of un-finished cacao products.
However, many types of chocolate cannot be made with cacao alone, and depend on other ingredients coming from other areas of the world. If every area acts the same way, then it becomes impossible to create “assemblage” products like milk chocolate… How should these situations be handles ethically?
ideally you would produce them where the most valuable material is, leading to the development of that location, leading to a reduction of margin, leading to a change to another of the involved locations
Chocolate is not made in Europe…?
I’m guessing they mean the cocoa.
Right, well everyone knows cocoa comes from developing countries so I wasn’t sure why they thought they needed to say it, or say it that way at least
Yeah, not sure either.
they could manufacture the chocolate in Africa where they’re growing the cocoa and avoid a trip to Europe entirely
Why don’t *you *manufacture it in Africa? Set up a factory and export it to Canada and I’ll buy some if I see it on my store shelves.
Be the change you want!
Europe invented chocolate, so there is that.
