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Top 25 Artisanal confectionery companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 583 artisanal confectionery companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 4,682 professional contacts across them, including 1,138 with verified work emails and 228 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.
This list covers artisanal confectionery companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 7, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest artisanal confectionery companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indirect evidence | 536 contacts → | |||
“Here at Thorntons, we’ve been crafting chocolate for over 100 years.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Indirect evidence | 285 contacts → | |||
“Welcome to HARIBO: UK’s leading sweets manufacturer and one of Yorkshire's largest employers.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Indirect evidence | 230 contacts → | |||
“Kinnerton is far from your typical brand.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Partial evidence | 162 contacts → | |||
“Tangerine Confectionery is the leading UK independent manufacturer of sugar confectionery and is the home of well-loved brands including Barratt, Jameson's, Taveners and Lion.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Partial evidence | 142 contacts → | |||
“We’re the UK’s leading co-manufacturer for global chocolate confectionery brands, producing in excess of tons of chocolate products annually.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Partial evidence | 98 contacts → | |||
“At OV we create confectionery ingredients and decoration solutions that add flavour, texture and visual appeal to bakery, chocolate, ice cream and sweet snacking.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Partial evidence | 94 contacts → | |||
“We are the UK’s largest distributor, importer and wholesaler of confectionery products, you could say we make anything possible.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Indirect evidence | 85 contacts → | |||
“Why send flowers when you can send Biscuiteers instead?” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Indirect evidence | 62 contacts → | |||
“Badiani was born in 1932 in a special city: Florence, which is an icon and heritage of beauty all over the world, craftsmanship and creative genius.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Indirect evidence | 57 contacts → | |||
“Ladurée is the ultimate French Maison for Macarons, Sweet Pastries, Chocolates and more.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Partial evidence | 55 contacts → | |||
“Hancocks is a confectionery cash & carry and wholesaler - the leading UK sweets and chocolates wholesaler to independent businesses.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Partial evidence | 55 contacts → | |||
“At Walkers Chocolates we are proud that we have almost 60 years dedicated experience in chocolate and confectionery manufacturing.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Indirect evidence | 54 contacts → | |||
“Rhokett is a premium quality, bespoke dessert manufacturer based in Kent.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Indirect evidence | 50 contacts → | |||
“Cake Décor is the largest UK- based manufacturer of cake decorations and toppings, producing an extensive range for major multiple retailers, plant manufacturers and specialist…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Indirect evidence | 49 contacts → | |||
“Hey there, we're Candy Kittens.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Indirect evidence | 45 contacts → | |||
“Established in 1921, Culpitt has been providing cake decorations for nearly 100 years.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Indirect evidence | 43 contacts → | |||
“Montezuma's was founded in with only a kitchen sink sized machine, huge enthusiasm, spades of naivety and most importantly, a broad ideal to bring chocolate innovation to a boring…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Indirect evidence | 39 contacts → | |||
“Since 1996, Sunshine Snacks Ltd has embodied the essence of a family-run business, starting from the humble beginnings of our own home.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Partial evidence | 37 contacts → | |||
“Artisan du chocolat is celebrated as one of the finest luxury chocolatiers in the UK with a growing reputation worldwide.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Partial evidence | 36 contacts → | |||
“R&W Scott: Ingredients for Indulgent Treats Since 1873 R&W Scott is a UK-based manufacturer specialising in chocolate flavour coatings, confectionery fillings, speciality icings…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Indirect evidence | 34 contacts → | |||
Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 33 contacts → | |||
“At Fiona Cairns Limited we’ve been designing and creating luxury baked delicacies since 1986.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Indirect evidence | 30 contacts → | |||
“Life is too short not to have the best.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Partial evidence | 29 contacts → | |||
“Indie artisan Dorset-based chocolate company established by Claire & Andy Burnet & winners of over 120 fine food awards since 2002, including 138 Great Taste Awards, plus multiple…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Indirect evidence | 27 contacts → | |||
“A life with sustainable chocolate is a better life worth living” Inspired to do the right thing for the environment and its customers, GNAW Chocolate is on a mission to produce…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: artisanal confectionery companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names artisanal confectionery companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of artisanal confectionery companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name artisanal confectionery companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Artisanal confectionery companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
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How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among artisanal confectionery companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “artisanal confectionery companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names artisanal confectionery companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among artisanal confectionery companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,138 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 7, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names artisanal confectionery companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many artisanal confectionery companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 583 artisanal confectionery companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Thorntons, headquartered in Derby, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most artisanal confectionery companies?
London leads with 92 headquartered companies, followed by Nottingham (9) and Edinburgh (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,138 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 583 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 7, 2026.
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