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Top 25 Chocolate makers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,506 chocolate makers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 22,132 professional contacts across them, including 3,758 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers chocolate makers headquartered in the United States, 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 19, 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 chocolate makers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,746 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GODIVA Chocolatier is a global leader in premium, artisanal chocolate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,094 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1852, the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a manufacturer and marketer of premium chocolate products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 771 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Swiss Chalet Fine Foods has provided food service professionals with unique, premium quality products from Europe and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 375 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With candy-making roots dating back to 1869, Jelly Belly Candy Company is family-owned and operated with the fourth, fifth and sixth generations of its founding family.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is a retail franchisor and manufacturer of premium confections.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 282 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Albanese is a confectionery manufacturer, retailer, and distributor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 251 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cocoa Processing Company Ltd is a Food and Beverages company located in 650 Ramsey Ave, Hillside, New Jersey, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Georgia Nut Company serves to create delicious and quality confections, snacks, and nuts to food manufacturers wanting to work with a reputable 70 year old company that continues…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clasen Quality Chocolate (CQC) is a world-class manufacturer of chocolate, confectionery coatings and fillings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lady M Confections® prides itself on creating the freshest and finest cakes and confectionary delights.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OVER 150 YEARS OF FAMILY TRADITION Founded in San Francisco in 1868, Guittard Chocolate Company is the oldest continuously family-owned and operated chocolate company in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sugarfina is an international candy brand, combining high-quality luxury candy with a fun and engaging aesthetic.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are more than just chocolate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pure’s Food Specialties was founded in 1964 as a small family-owned cookie manufacturing operation in Broadview, IL (10 miles west of Chicago).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1921, Wolfgang Confectioners has been driven by a simple yet powerful mission: Make Candy Bless Lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “R.M.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Malley's Chocolates has been creating the best sweet treats in Northeast Ohio since 1935.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1939 and headquartered in Oakdale, California, Sconza Candy Company is a fourth-generation, family-owned confectionery manufacturer specializing in premium…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pittsburgh's premier dessert destination, now franchising!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Frankford Candy was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947 as a manufacturer of seasonal chocolate products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Marich Confectionery Company, the second generation Central Coast California based candy making family behind Marich® Pancrafted® Chocolates, has a passion for creating craveable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Enstrom Candies is the home of World Famous Almond Toffee and other fine confections, including chocolate assortments, truffle assortments, and turtles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brown & Haley has been creating premium confections since 1912.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: 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 chocolate makers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of chocolate makers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name 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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Chocolate makers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,506 companies.
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 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 chocolate makers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 3,758 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 19, 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.
Chocolate makers by metro
- Chocolate makers in New York51
- Chocolate makers in Chicago31
- Chocolate makers in Los Angeles26
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 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 chocolate makers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,506 chocolate makers headquartered in the United States 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?
Godiva Chocolatier, headquartered in White Plains, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most chocolate makers?
New York leads with 51 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (31) and Los Angeles (26).
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 3,758 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,506 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 19, 2026.
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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.
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