TCHO | Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery

TCHO debuts two plant-based professional baking chocolates

TCHO debuts plant-based professional baking chocolates

Brand reaches goal to be 100% plant-based ahead of schedule.

October 3, 2022

TCHO sought input from chefs and baking professionals while developing its plant-based chocolates.

TCHO earns B Corporation certification

Chocolate company earned the certification on its first attempt.

October 4, 2021

TCHO announced it achieved the certification through ongoing sustainability efforts and work to improve the lives of its partners, employees, customers, suppliers and its local community.

TCHO Valentine’s Day collections

TCHO Chocolate, San Francisco, Calif.

Alyse Thompson

February 12, 2019

TCHO Chocolate has introduced two chocolate bar collections that allow gifters to show their special someone — or their best gal pals — some love.

TCHO limited-edition holiday bars

TCHO Chocolate, Berkeley, Calif.

Alyse Thompson

November 15, 2018

TCHO has taken some of the best holiday indulgences and merged them with its organic, Fairtrade chocolate blends to satisfy holiday cravings.

Ezaki Glico snaps up TCHO

Japanese food conglomerate eyes U.S. chocolate market with acquisition of Berkeley-based craft chocolate company.

Bernie Pacyniak

February 21, 2018

Osaka, Japan-based Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. will acquire TCHO Ventures, Inc., a San Francisco-area, award-winning craft chocolate company.

Winter Fancy Food Show

Driven to the ‘dark side’

Hi-octane chocolate as well as reimagined marshmallows and marzipan catch the attention of Candy Industry’s trends spotter at the Winter Fancy Food Show.

Curtis Vreeland

January 26, 2016

The release of a new Star Wars movie seems to be affecting craft chocolate makers. Dark bars with a “force” factor above 80 percent cacao abounded at last week’s Winter Fancy Foods Show at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

TCHO Pairings

TCHO, San Francisco, Calif.

Crystal Lindell

October 23, 2013

The new TCHO Pairings bar take common flavors and turn them into extraordinary chocolate bars.

13 Amazing Candy Companies from the Summer Fancy Food Show!

From Chocolat Moderne to The Tea Room Chocolate Co. and the Seattle Chocolate Co., plus many others, chocolatiers showed off their most creative treats.

Curtis Vreeland

September 20, 2013

Show highlights packaging with a feminine mystique, beverage industry-inspired flavors, “contemporized” brand campaigns and “noncommittal” snacking options.

TCHO use hi-tech techniques to trace, track cocoa beans

Effort embraces on-site flavor labs, improved infrastructures and cloud-based monitoring systems to monitor bean quality.

March 20, 2013

San Francisco-based TCHO, a high-end chocolate bar manufacturer that takes to heart its core values involving quality and traceability, has been in the forefront of linking the supply chain from the farmer’s field to the consumer.

Tcho partners with World Cocoa Foundation to improve quality of Ghana’s cocoa

With the backing of new shareholders, the young chocolate maker brand expands its global presence by investing in cocoa’s future

Jorona Johnson

February 20, 2013

Despite its youth and size, San Francisco-based chocolate maker Tcho is making large-scale efforts to improve the global cocoa market, starting with Ghana. The company is collaborating with the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) to introduce a “Flavor Lab” at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana to show farmers the direct link between quality at the farm level and increased value for their product.