Côte d'Or is a producer of Belgian chocolate currently owned by Kraft Foods, the second largest food company in the world after Nestlé, formerly owned by the Philip Morris Companies Inc., now known as Altria Group. Côte d'Or was originally created by Charles Neuhaus in 1883, a chocolate manufacturer who created the name Côte d'Or (French for Gold Coast) referring to the old name of contemporary Ghana, the source of much of the cacao beans used in...
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Côte d'Or is a producer of Belgian chocolate currently owned by Kraft Foods, the second largest food company in the world after Nestlé, formerly owned by the Philip Morris Companies Inc., now known as Altria Group. Côte d'Or was originally created by Charles Neuhaus in 1883, a chocolate manufacturer who created the name Côte d'Or (French for Gold Coast) referring to the old name of contemporary Ghana, the source of much of the cacao beans used in chocolate manufacturing.
The emblem of Côte d'Or is the elephant, a symbol which again echoes the African origin of the cocoa beans that make Côte d'Or, and one source claims that they were used to haul the sacks of cocoa beans. In one of the earlier versions of the logo, however, three pyramids were also featured, perhaps suggesting that it was more a simple appeal to the "exotic" origin of the beans for Belgian consumers.
In 1965, Côte d’Or earned the title of Fournisseur Breveté de la Cour de Belgique—official supplier to the Belgian royal...
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