Our Mission

For us, great chocolate begins long before you break off the first piece. It begins with the cocoa bean, with the people who grow it and with the way we treat our environment.

That is why we make our chocolate ourselves. Bean to Bar, from the cocoa bean to the finished chocolate, in our manufactory on the outskirts of Zurich. We roast, crack, grind, conche, experiment, taste and mould everything ourselves. Because if we want to know what goes into our chocolate, we also want to know where it comes from and how it was made.

We know our beans. And the people behind them.

For us, cocoa is more than just a raw material. We want to know where our cocoa beans grow and who is behind them. We source our beans from different cocoa growing regions around the world, including Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Cameroon, Ghana, Bali and Papua New Guinea.

We focus on long term relationships, fair prices and farming methods that work with nature rather than against it. All our cocoa beans come from mixed forests, where cocoa grows alongside a variety of plants and trees within a diverse ecosystem. This type of cultivation takes more time, protects natural biodiversity and produces a quality you can taste.

Organic, fair and as sustainable as possible. But without the blah blah.

For us, sustainability is not just a nice word printed on packaging. It is an ongoing responsibility with room for continuous improvement.

Wherever possible, we purchase ingredients locally, avoid food waste and use energy and resources consciously throughout our production. For example, roasted cocoa beans are cooled naturally in the air, while active cooling is used in production only during the hottest part of summer. We give away surplus chocolate or sell it through Too Good To Go instead of needlessly throwing it away.

And because transparency matters to us, we do not claim to be perfect. We want to act as sustainably as possible and keep taking steps in the right direction.

Chocolate can have values. And still be fun.

With all of this, we must not forget one thing: chocolate should bring joy.

That is why Taucherli can be colourful, surprising, sometimes a little crazy and definitely never boring. Our Crazy Mixes break the mould, Fine Flavour takes you on a sensory journey and the Schwiizerli are little declarations of love for Switzerland.

We believe in human kindness, tolerance and fairness and want to create a chocolate world with room for different people, ideas and tastes.

Because in the end, our mission is quite simple:

To make chocolate that tastes truly delicious, is produced responsibly and makes the world a little more beautiful, even if only for a moment.