The Menier Chocolate company 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, founder ⁕Emile-Justin Menier, sole CEO ⁕Gaston Menier, COO ⁕Henri Menier, CEO ⁕Hubert Menier, co chief executive with Antoine ⁕Antoine Gilles Menier, 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 bitter-tasting pills. Wikipedia [ - ]

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