Join us in welcoming, Aidan Keefe to a sweet journey ahead as our new Director of Finance! 🍫 With extensive experience in finance and analytics from Silicon Valley, Aidan brings invaluable expertise to our team. Fun fact: Aidan was born and raised in Berkeley but spent many years in Silicon Valley working in finance and analytics, however, it never felt quite like home to him. Aidan comes from a family where dessert was king—his great-grandmother would plan meals around the dessert, and his dad believed no dessert was better than fine chocolate. After his father's passing in 2022, Aidan finds comfort in being back in Berkeley, living in his childhood home, and working on a team dedicated to making the best chocolate at TCHO. Aidan's favorite chocolate at the moment is Born Fruity, our single-origin dark chocolate sourced from Peru. 🍫 Welcome to the TCHO family, Aidan!
TCHO Chocolate
Food and Beverage Services
Berkeley, CA 6,034 followers
Chocolate. Fair & Square.
About us
TCHO Chocolate is a Certified B Corporation. Founded in 2008, TCHO Chocolate crafts award-winning and imaginative chocolate by collaborating directly with cocoa farmers at flavor labs across the world to grow better, more consistent cacao beans to create authentic craft chocolate to inspire the world’s chefs, hobby bakers, and chocolate enthusiasts. Like wine or coffee, cacao’s inherent flavors vary based on the terroir where it is grown, as well as on key processes, like fermentation or roasting, that influence the development of flavor. Since not all cacao is created equal, TCHO established TCHO Source, a one-of-a-kind sourcing and educational partnership with farmers, co-operatives, and agronomists all over the world. By installing TCHO Flavor Labs in key cacao-producing locations, creating industry cacao sensory analysis standards, conducting sensory training, developing standardized fermentation and drying processes, improving infrastructure, and sharing information throughout the world of cacao, TCHO has turned its suppliers into co-creators. From there, TCHO hand-selects every ingredient used to craft its award-winning chocolates for a great experience from first glance to last bite. As a certified B Corporation, we lean on our founding value of curiosity to find new ways to use our business to better the world through chocolate. That's why TCHO is Chocolate. Fair & Square. To learn more, go to TCHO.com
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http://www.TCHO.com
External link for TCHO Chocolate
- Industry
- Food and Beverage Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Berkeley, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2008
- Specialties
- Artisan Chocolate Making, Direct Sourcing, Sensory Analysis, Flavor-Focused, Chocolate Maker, Chocolate Making, Craft Chocolate, Plant Based Chocolate, Oat Milk Chocolate , Made In Berkeley, Flavor Wheel, TCHO Source, Fair Trade Certified, B Corp, Organic, Kosher, and Vegan
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3100 San Pablo Ave.
Suite 170
Berkeley, CA 94702, US
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Employees at TCHO Chocolate
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Josh Mohr
SVP of Marketing at TCHO Chocolate | B Corp.
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Robert Kopf
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Kimberly A. Abbi
Mother | Digital Marketing Leader with a focus on Millennial Women | Masters Degree F.I.T. | Consultant
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Eric W. Case
Creating a better world by creating better chocolate while keeping more value in the countries of origin.
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See you at Sweets & Snacks Expo 🍫
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TCHO is proud to source cacao from organic certified small holder farms - exemplary stewards of the Earth, today and everyday. Through direct relationships with cacao suppliers and in-depth sensory analysis, we ensure the highest quality to make the best chocolate, while supporting sustainability efforts. We prioritize sourcing 100% USDA-certified organic cacao. Our cacao suppliers around the world are dedicated to practices that improve and preserve our environment. They’ve implemented regenerative agriculture practices, promoting biodiversity and soil health while reducing erosion and improving water quality. Through partnerships with programs like the PUR Project - every dollar you spend on TCHO helps efforts to reforest degraded landscapes and enhance resilience to climate change. Additionally, we roast our cacao at origin, reducing transportation emissions by over 20% compared to competitors. Our commitment extends beyond the cacao itself, most of our packaging, is now environmentally friendly, and there’s more improvements in the works. As a Certified @bcorpuscan , sustainability is ingrained in every aspect of our operations, from sourcing to how we make chocolate at our factory in Berkeley, CA. This means constantly striving to be better. Better stewards of our planet, better users of its resources, and providing a better quality of life. #earthdayeveryday #tchosource #tchochocolate #organic #bcorp #madeinberkeley #chocolatefairandsquare
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See you at the Craft Brewer’s Conference! Stop by our Hospitality Suite on Monday 4/22 to sample our ethically sourced and declicious cacao nibs first by their own but then in these incredible beers from TALEA Beer Co. and Everywhere Beer!
If you’re going to the Brewers Association Craft Brewer’s Conference make sure to stop by our TCHO Chocolate Hospitality Suite on Monday 2-4:30 PM at the Casanova 503 room in The Venetian. You’ll try beers made with TCHO cacao nibs, from incredible breweries like Everywhere Beer and TALEA Beer Co. We’ll also have a some brownies and chocolate (of course)!
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We are ready for you Natural Products Expo! 🎉 Come by our booth #5020, Hall E and ask us to try our Dirty Chai bar, a NEXTY Finalist in the Best New Sweet Snack category. 🍫
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We're so excited to be hosting a Dirty Chai Happy Hour this Friday at Natural Products Expo West with our fellow B Corp friends TCHO Chocolate! Come by, say hi, and enjoy a dirty chai! 🍫 ☕ #expowest2024
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Come find us at Expo West and try our Perfect Matcha and Dirty Chai chocolate bars. We'll be in Hall E, Booth #5020, ready to help you stay perfect and get a lil' dirty at the same time. New Hope Network
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Amazing opportunity to build our foodservice sales on the East coast, working with extraordinary distributors like Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc. We’re #hiring. Know anyone who might be interested?
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🎉 We're thrilled to share some exciting news! Our small-batch bar, Dirty Chai, has been nominated as a Finalist for a NEXTY Award at the Natural Products Expo! Our collaboration with Equator Coffees, driven by our shared values, led us to create this incredible Dirty Chai bar. We're beyond excited to announce that out of over 1,500 nominees, it has been selected as one of the top 6 in the Sweet Dessert category. As a Certified B Corp, it was only natural for us to partner with another B Corp like Equator Coffees. We both prioritize sourcing Organic and Fair Trade ingredients, ensuring that the livelihoods of our partners are improved along the way. It's like we can finish each other's sentences. 🍫☕ Come by Hall E, booth #5020, March 14-16th to try Dirty Chai & more! 🍫 See the other incredible Finalists here: https://lnkd.in/eVGXpgj5
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