Ritter chocolate factories

History

Beginnings

1912 Alfred Ritter and Clara Ritter marry and found their chocolate company and confectionery „Alfred Ritter Cannstat “, close to Stuttgart, in Germany.

Until the second world war

1919 the increase in the turnover forces the couple to move, and of launching on the market its chocolate own brand. The family company rests on 40 employee (E) S. the company passes from the statute of artisanal to that of industry. Into full the economic crisis, the company moves again, then is designed a square chocolate, suggestion of Clara Ritter in order to be able to put it in a pocket.

during the second world war

The war has just burst, the production of chocolate slows down, to cease completely starting from 1940.

Post-war period

In 1946 the chocolate factory D `Alfred Ritter starts again to manufacture different Confiserie S without Cacao because this base of the chocolate misses (Restrictions). ' undertaken employs already more than 100 people. She celebrates a record of production: four tons of chocolate in Tablettes are produced each day.

Clara Ritter (the founder of the company) disappears at the 82 years age.

1960 Alfred Otto Ritter decides to concentrate manufacture on the chocolate square (with doubling of volume of production).
1970 the company becomes national and the mark " RITTER SPORT" is established in all the Germany thanks to a Publicity campaign televised punctuated of the famous slogan: „“ Square. Practical. Greedy” “.
1974 A. Ritter makes the decision then to create a coloured range: each variety of chocolate is identifiable by a different color . To each kind corresponds an individual color.
1976 New Packing

The chocolate factory is held by the Ritter family.

Marks of the Chocolate factory

Chocolates and confectionery : RITTER SPORT

Management of the firm

Key figures

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