Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Founded in 1852, the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a manufacturer and marketer of premium chocolate products. Ghirardelli is one of the few companies in America that controls the entire chocolate manufacturing process, from cocoa bean to finished product. This control over the manufacturing process combined with Ghirardelli's proprietary bean blend and unique methods of roasting and processing, ensures that you are rewarded with the highest quality and richest products. Ghirardelli has the richest heritage of any American chocolate company and continues to honor it to this day.www.ghirardelli.com
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Oct 15, 2026
EvanUNKNOWN
1852?
Grant PaulsenHOST
Godiva? Looking for Ghirardelli.
EvanUNKNOWN
Ghirardelli.
EvanUNKNOWN
Ghidaiva.
EvanUNKNOWN
It's like European, right? I had Nestle, Hershey, and then I went Ghidaiva because I was like, Nestle's here, Hershey's in Pennsylvania.
Grant PaulsenHOST
Last one.
Grant PaulsenHOST
What famous chocolate company was founded in San Francisco in 1852?
EvanUNKNOWN
That's a tough one.
Logan PaulsenHOST
1852?
MicahPANELIST
chocolate production, manufacture, and distribution that have taken place since Launchpad started his secret chocolate conspiracy.
MicahPANELIST
Ghirardelli is now owned by Lindt, and Lindt opened a manufacturing plant in New Hampshire.
MicahPANELIST
Dove Chocolate was taken over by the Mars Candy conglomerate and is distributed nationally.
MicahPANELIST
Hershey developed the Symphony bar, and Toblerone, along with Cadbury, became part of the huge food corporation Mondelez.
AlexHOST
I feel like they don't do a lot of...
AlexHOST
Like, they have the Ghirardelli market and then that's it.
AlexHOST
Everything else is, like, not in their wheelhouse.
TimHOST
They have my favorite cheesecake, which is the banana cream cheesecake.
James HarrisHOST
Mm-hmm.
Steve BlairGUEST
Um, you know, I left P&G when they wanted me to relocate another time back to Cincinnati, and so I got a chance to build out the Ghirardelli team across the country for, for national accounts.
Steve BlairGUEST
Um, and then Harvest Group called in 2015 and gave me an opportunity to, to do the thing I loved, but to do it full-time-
James HarrisHOST
Yeah
EliseGUEST
Mm-hmm.
IrisHOST
And you can kind of skew towards that way, but I think as you become more mature in this space and more practiced, which is part of that maturity, it's like, okay, I could have seven Ghirardelli caramel squares, but it probably won't be super helpful for me, [laughs] this decision.
EliseGUEST
Mm-hmm.
IrisHOST
So instead, how about some fruit? How about a little yogurt? You know, how about some granola for some extra carbs on there? I think it's a very natural evolution for a lot of people, but I think if people can kind of amplify that for themselves a little faster, I think they'd feel better and it would work better for them.
Victoria CuoreHOST
And I go in there and I do all of the things, right? And, and my husband will tell you, he's sitting right here, y'all know he's sitting here.
Victoria CuoreHOST
I went in there with Ghirardelli chocolate chip freaking cookies, you know, before surg- before surgery, didn't I?
Michael MackniakHOST
Every time.
Victoria CuoreHOST
And I was like, "I'm not going and doing the Versed.
Pamela CassHOST
...
Pamela CassHOST
I, I discovered that he likes dark chocolate Ghirardelli chocolate chips.
Natalie DavisHOST
Oh.
Pamela CassHOST
So.
Lili De Hoyos AndersonHOST
But anyway, we went to Ghirardelli Square and some of you are going to be very familiar with that.
Lili De Hoyos AndersonHOST
And of course, the Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory is there and they have all kinds of fun things to eat and try.
Lili De Hoyos AndersonHOST
But they also have a lot of little shops in that square that are just different vendors of, you know, a lot of classy stuff and fun things, touristy things.
Lili De Hoyos AndersonHOST
Well, one of the shops had glass in it.
AnthonyHOST
[laughs]
TonyHOST
... and putting in the, the Ghirardelli s- sauce-
AnthonyHOST
[laughs]
TonyHOST
... and they're mixing it-
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