Hachez

Hachez () was a chocolate manufacturing company based in Bremen in northern Germany. It was founded in 1890 by Joseph Emile Hachez and Gustav Linde. The Feodora pralines and chocolate brand has been part of the company since 1953. In 2012, the Danish confectionery company Toms took over the company, which is now run under the name Hanseatisches Chocoladen Kontor. Production has been taking place in Nowa Sól in Poland since 2020.

==History== The company was founded by Joseph Emile Hachez and his business partner Gustav Linde in 1890. Joseph Emil Hachez was the great-grandson of Joseph Johan Hachez, who was born in Bruges, emigrated to Bremen in the 18th century and married the daughter of a local merchant in 1785. In 1894, the company moved from the Bremer Altstadt district to the Weserstrasse in the Neustadt district left of the Weser, where the company's headquarters remained until it was taken over by Toms. In 1910, Otto Friedrich Hasse joined the company as a shareholder. In 1923, Hasse created thin chocolate bars called Braune Blätter (brown leaves) because he liked the shape of the leaves, which developed into one of the company's most known product. After Joseph Emil Hachez's death in 1933, Hasse became the company's sole shareholder.