Butlers Chocolates
Membership Status:
Approved until 31 May 2022
Sector:
Confectionery/Snacks
About the company
Butlers Chocolates is Ireland's largest family-owned chocolate producer and has been crafting chocolates in Dublin since 1932. Recent research has shown that Butlers Chocolates is Ireland's most preferred brand of luxury Irish chocolates. Butlers chocolatiers use sustainably sourced cocoa to create exceptional chocolate products including; premium chocolate assortments, gourmet solid and filled chocolate bars in various sizes, chocolate collections with alcohol, souvenir gifts and travel retail exclusives. Butlers Chocolates have won numerous Great Taste Awards, Irish Food Awards and Quality Irish Food Awards for excellence in taste and presentation. Butlers is also known and loved throughout Ireland and beyond for its eponymous retail concept - Butlers Chocolate Café, an innovative experience personifying the Butlers brand, in over 30 locations worldwide including South Asia and Dubai.
Key Sustainability Commitments
Committed to Responsible Sourcing
Butlers Chocolates is committed to the ethical sourcing of ingredients. Butlers Chocolates is a member of Cocoa Horizons, a programme which seeks to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers and their communities. The coffee used in Butlers Chocolate Cafés is Fairtrade certified and ethically sourced.
Focused on Renewable Energy
The company installed a 420,000kWh solar rooftop unit atop its Dublin factory; the biggest installation of its kind on an industrial premises in the Republic of Ireland. The installation of the unit meets approximately 14% of the company's annual energy demand with over 350,000kWh of electricity generated each year.
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