The Menier Chocolate company (French: Chocolat Menier) was a chocolate manufacturing business founded in 1816 as a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Paris, France at a time when chocolate was used as a medicinal product and was only one part of the overall business.
Controlled and run by the Menier family for more than 150 years, the heads of Menier Chocolate company were:
- Antoine Brutus Menier (1795-1853) - founder
- Emile-Justin Menier (1826-1881) - sole CEO
- Gaston Menier (1855-1934) - COO
- Henri Menier (1853-1913) - CEO
- Hubert Menier (1910-1959) - co chief executive with Antoine
- Antoine Gilles Menier (1904-1967) - last CEO
In 1816, Antoine Brutus Menier founded the Menier Hardware Company in Paris. Although not trained as a pharmacist, he began preparing and selling a variety of powders for medicinal purposes. The business grew rapidly but for the first few years the company's production of chocolate was very limited as its primary usage was as a medicinal powder and for coating of bitter-tasting pills.
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