This year we are going to be celebrating a special anniversary - 25 years of Felchlin Grand Cru Couvertures. This milestone inspires us to reminisce on our journey and to recount the story of how Felchlin Grand Cru's, and in addition the closely related Cacao Sélection Standards, came into being a quarter of a century ago.

Thanks to the initiative of our client Confiserie Sprüngli AG and through a strategic partnership with Elucid GmbH and the support of our local partners, we are able to extend our commitment to professional basic health care to Ecuador and Venezuela. Both projects contribute to improving the health and protecting against extreme poverty of our cacao farmers and their families.

During the middle of May, Mirko Schneckenburger, our Head of Marketing & Communications, was granted the opportunity to travel to Madagascar as part of our regular visits to our local partners. During his time there, he visited Philippe Mena, our long-standing partner on site and the founder of the company Sambirano SA, alongside the cacao farmers who cultivate our quality cacao in its natural state. See below for where he shares his impressions of the trip.

Do you know what the first product Max Felchlin made was?

Hint: It was certainly not couverture, but...

For some time now, two new machines have been complementing our production building.

With regard to the challenge of producing more sustainably without compromising quality - heat recovery in the roasting process of our cocoa beans

After more than 30 years of constancy at the helm of Max Felchlin AG, a generational change is about to take place: Christian Aschwanden, our CEO, is handing over the manage-ment of our company to younger hands.

Responsibility for reducing CO2 emissions goes above and beyond the production site

Our new Grand Cru milk couverture

Last Friday, the ground breaking ceremony for our new freight forwarding building took place in the presence of senior management, the architect, site manager and representatives of the municipality of Schwyz.

On behalf of aroma, taste and health - Partner visit to Ghana

Grand Cru OPUS Lait and Blanc – made with single origin mountain meadow milk

On behalf of aroma and taste – origin partners visit Felchlin in Switzerland

On behalf of aroma and taste – series on the purchasing philosophy at Felchlin – Cacaobutter

Finest, vegan and organic certified confectionary masses from Felchlin Switzerland

On behalf of aroma and taste - series on the purchasing philosophy at Felchlin - crystal sugar

On behalf of aroma and taste - series on the purchasing philosophy at Felchlin - Vanilla

On behalf of aroma and taste – A Felchlin style business trip

On behalf of aroma and taste - series on the purchasing philosophy at Felchlin - Milk Powder

Felchlin commissions a new OneShot moulding line and optimises the existing processes, creating the conditions for a possible expansion of the product portfolio

With self-imposed guidelines Felchlin ensures the uniqueness and purity of each individual product. – Felchlin FAIR DIRECT CACAO and Felchlin CACAO SELECTION

The «Salama Mateza» project, launched by Max Felchlin AG, mTOMADY and Sambirano SA, will enable and finance access to health insurance for 880 smallholder farmers and their families in the Sambirano Valley region of Madagascar over the next decade.