Marich Chocolates is a maker of premium chocolates and confections established in 1983, and is exploring conversations with food and beverage industry experts about the future potential of the business. About Marich Chocolates:Marich Chocolates is a maker of fine chocolates and confections since 198…
Marich Chocolates is a maker of premium chocolates and confections established in 1983, and is exploring conversations with food and beverage industry experts about the future potential of the business.
About Marich Chocolates:
Marich Chocolates is a maker of fine chocolates and confections since 1983. Committed to quality and customer satisfaction, our products range from old time favorites such as chocolate almonds and raisins, to our signature chocolates like Chocolate Cherries, Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels, and a broad variety of chocolate covered fruits, nuts, coffee, toffee and caramels. Our innovation team is responsbile for driving creative flavors and combinations including avant garde flavors such as Dark Chocolate Chipotle Almonds, Coconut Curry Cashews and Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Cashews meant to please the most discriminating tastes.
A detailed history of Marich Chocolates:
Founder Marinus van Dam grew up in his native Holland during World War II. To help support his family, at the age of 15 Marinus found a job at a local candy factory. His job was to take a sheet of metal and scrape up the candy that had become stuck on the factory floor. He tirelessly worked the 4 floors of the building every day.
His endless curiosity and work ethic caught the attention of management and he was selected to attend Candy Technology School paid for by the company (very progressive for 1945!) This pattern repeated until he learned every aspect of candy making from the finest hand-made chocolates to jellies, caramel, taffy, nougat, gum, mints, licorice and more.
In 1957, Marinus left Holland to come to America where he heard the streets were paved with gold. After working for a small confectionery company in Ohio, he heard of a larger company in California that was hiring so off he went to join the Wild West. To his great fortune he landed the job and spent the better part of his career at that company helping to build it into one of the finest companies in the US.
After a lifetime of working for others, he felt it was time to venture out on his own. In 1983 Marinus and several partners founded Marich Confectionery Company. Marinus' sons Brad and Troy started working at the company sweeping floors and cleaning before being granted the right to learn the craft. Their dad’s philosophy was, “You cannot be a leader if you do not understand the job from the ground up. Once you learn how to keep a plant clean, you can learn how to make candy.” Being old-school Dutch, Marinus put his sons to the tasks of cleaning toilets, sweeping, making boxes and whatever had to be done. Over the years they both learned the art of fine candy making along side their father. True to family business form, they also learned to weld stainless, sweat copper, install equipment, electrical work and all the types of things that have to be done to keep a business running.” Anyone in a family business reading this is smiling and know this story.
After 30 years the van Dam family continues to enjoy building the business together coupled with the strong values and culture that have been the foundation of their success and yes, they still like to eat chocolate.
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Sectors Marich Premium Chocolates serves:
Consumer Goods
Distribution
Retail
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