Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Premium chocolate makers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 6,093 premium chocolate makers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 136,186 professional contacts across them, including 27,427 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers premium chocolate makers worldwide, 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 20, 2026. Country and city lists for premium chocolate makers follow the table.
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 premium chocolate makers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18,693 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1946 by Pietro and Giovanni Ferrero, the Ferrero Group is a family-owned business in its third generation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 9,815 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are passionate for chocolate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 8,601 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With annual sales of about CHF 14.8 billion in fiscal year 2024/25, the Zurich-based Barry Callebaut Group is the world’s leading solutions provider of high-quality chocolate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,741 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An international, family-owned and independent food group, SAVENCIA has developed a model built on the valorization of two sectors of excellence-milk and cocoa-serving…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,346 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos um Grupo que nunca teve medo de inovar.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,746 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GODIVA Chocolatier is a global leader in premium, artisanal chocolate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,460 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Garoto: tradição brasileira em chocolates há mais de 80 anos A Chocolates Garoto foi fundada em 1929 e fica localizada em Vila Velha (ES).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,454 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 100 years, See's Candies has been dedicated to making candy Mary See's way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,429 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Luxury British cacao grower and chocolatier Hotel Chocolat was founded to make people happy through chocolate!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,329 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “This family-owned enterprise was founded 100 years ago, in 1906.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,277 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Storck is one of the biggest confectionery manufacturers in the world and produces high-quality chocolate specialties and sugar confectionery.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,094 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1852, the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a manufacturer and marketer of premium chocolate products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 996 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The world’s finest chocolate host.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 983 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Somos una compañía líder en el mercado de chocolates y snacks en Colombia, que desde 1920, brinda a nuestros consumidores productos nutritivos y confiables, con marcas queridas y…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 956 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe CÉMOI emploie en France et dispose de.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 852 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Harald is a brazilian company that produces chocolates, compounds, coatings and fillings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 771 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Swiss Chalet Fine Foods has provided food service professionals with unique, premium quality products from Europe and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 731 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With over 25 years of experience, we are Machu Picchu Foods, a certified B Corp and one of the leading manufacturers of single-origin, fairtrade, organic chocolate, cacao, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 718 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We began a long time ago, in 1878 in fact, with Silviano Venchi, a 20-year-old from Turin who loved chocolate so much he spent all his savings on two bronze cauldrons and began to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 692 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Läderach is a Swiss chocolate factory that is internationally renowned for its high-quality fresh chocolate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 670 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bonafide es una compañía fundada en el año 1917, líder en elaboración y comercialización de café, chocolates y bombones y se caracteriza por la excelente calidad y tradición de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 667 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chocolatier-cacaoculteur, Jeff de Bruges est une marque française qui a développé un concept de boutiques de chocolats « premium accessible ».” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 624 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Delica AG was founded in 2021 and is a consortium of the companies Chocolat Frey AG, Delica AG, Midor AG, Riseria SA and Total Capsule Solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 577 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ELVAN FOOD IND CO, whose aim is to be the leader in its sector by combining years of experience with the energy and dynamism of its enthusiastic personnel, is operating its modern…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 555 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Worldwide Preferred Independent European Chocolatiers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: premium chocolate makers. 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 premium chocolate makers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of premium chocolate makers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name premium chocolate makers. 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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Premium chocolate makers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 premium chocolate makers, 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for premium chocolate makers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “premium chocolate makers”. 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 premium chocolate makers), 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 premium chocolate makers, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 27,427 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 20, 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.
Premium chocolate makers by location
22 lists · largest firstEvery Premium chocolate makers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Premium chocolate makers based in the United States942
- Premium chocolate makers based in France606
- Premium chocolate makers based in Brazil353
- Premium chocolate makers based in the United Kingdom314
- Premium chocolate makers based in India286
- Premium chocolate makers based in Italy244
- Premium chocolate makers based in the Netherlands235
- Premium chocolate makers based in Germany216
- Premium chocolate makers based in Belgium210
- Premium chocolate makers based in Canada175
- Premium chocolate makers based in Spain153
- Premium chocolate makers based in Switzerland145
- Premium chocolate makers based in Türkiye131
- Premium chocolate makers based in Australia114
- Premium chocolate makers based in the United Arab Emirates75
- Premium chocolate makers based in Sweden55
- Premium chocolate makers based in Poland49
- Premium chocolate makers based in Chile48
- Premium chocolate makers based in Mexico40
- Premium chocolate makers based in Denmark34
- Premium chocolate makers based in Ireland31
- Premium chocolate makers based in South Africa25
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 premium chocolate makers, 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 premium chocolate makers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 6,093 premium chocolate makers worldwide 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?
Ferrero, headquartered in Senningerberg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most premium chocolate makers?
The United States leads with 942 companies, followed by France (606) and Brazil (353). Every premium chocolate makers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most premium chocolate makers?
Sao Paulo leads with 89 headquartered companies, followed by London (53) and Paris (50).
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 27,427 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 6,093 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 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.