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Welcome to The Chocolate Factory!

Who wouldn’t be amazed by the wonderful world of a real chocolate factory, full of enormous, shiny copper machines, grinding, steaming and creating the most delicious chocolate you could ever imagine?
The Chocolate Factory is a late 19th century adventure, the most exciting era of the cocoa- and chocolate industries and a place where you can see, smell, taste and feel chocolate.
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The Chocolate Factory and the media

The Chocolate Factory attracts the enthusiastic attention of various media, such as this news fragment from CNN shows. A concise version can be found in the archive.
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Koloniaal Etablissement



The Koloniaal Etablissement (Colonial Establishment) moves to The Chocolate Factory

Maarten van Poelgeest from the Municipality Amsterdam handed over the Koloniaal Etablissement figuratively to the Chocolate Factory. The Koloniaal Etablissement has to disappear in 2009 but it will be reused by the Chocolate Factory for the historic new building on the square at De Ruijterkade 105–106 as the entrance to The Chocolate Factory.

The Chocolate Factory is delighted that it can reuse the stone and other building material from the Koloniaal Etablissement, which dates from 1910 and consequently fits in exactly with the style and appearance which The Chocolate Factory would like to give to its buildings. The basic principles of The Chocolate Factory have a public, social and cultural character. The buildings will be constructed for the most part according to the “cradle to cradle” philosophy, by which sustainability is guaranteed.

The initiator of The Chocolate Factory, Maurits Rubinstein: “Although it is a pity that the Koloniaal Etablissement must give up its present site, we are thrilled that we can relocate this building for The Chocolate Factory at 400 metres distance from its original location.”
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"The Cocoa Girl” returns to Amsterdam

130 year old Bensdorp statue moves to The Chocolate Factory

“The Cocoa Girl” is brought back to her “own” city, Amsterdam. On Thursday, the Bussum chocolate concern Barry Callebaut handed over the statue to The Chocolate Factory. The factory’s initiator, Maurits Rubinstein, and the ex mayor of Amsterdam, Ed van Thijn, took receipt of “The Cocoa Girl”.

Since 1870 “The Cocoa Girl”, a more than two metre high sculpture of a woman carrying a basket with cocoa pods, has looked out over the city from the gable of the head office of the well-known Bensdorp factory on the Amsterdam river Amstel. In the 1970s she moved to the site of the Bussum branch of Bensdorp. This factory also closed down subsequently. The present director of the chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut Netherlands, Eric Jan Straathof, together with the former Bensdorp director, Louis Bensdorp, donated the statue to The Chocolate Factory Foundation, as a consequence of which “The Cocoa Girl” returns at last to Amsterdam.

Earlier this month an impressive collection of cocoa and chocolate tins from the Hoorn Museum of the Twentieth Century moved to the depot of The Chocolate Factory. This is a unique collection from the period 1850–1950 from well known and less well known, exclusively Dutch chocolate and cocoa factories, none of which exist any more. The monumental site of the factory, directly next to the Central Station, is an ideal place to display this collection once again. From 2013 this unique collection and “The Cocoa Girl” will be on show in the tastiest theme park, The Chocolate Factory, in Amsterdam.

The Cocoa Girl
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From 2013 this unique collection of cocoa tins will be on display once again
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