Private company
Scharffen Berger
Logo: https://www.scharffenberger.com/, Non-free logo, via Wikipedia3
American chocolate manufacturer
Scharffen Berger is an American chocolate manufacturing company, which was a subsidiary of The Hershey Company after it had been acquired in 2005. Scharffen Berger was established as an independent Berkeley, California-based chocolate maker in 1996 by sparkling wine maker John Scharffenberger and physician Robert Steinberg.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- Industryfood industry1
- HeadquartersBerkeley1
- Websitewww.scharffenberger.com
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Scharffen Berger is an American chocolate manufacturing company, which was a subsidiary of The Hershey Company after it had been acquired in 2005. Scharffen Berger was established as an independent Berkeley, California-based chocolate maker in 1996 by sparkling wine maker John Scharffenberger and physician Robert Steinberg.2
Products and brands
- chocolate
Listed on Wikidata.1
Links
- Websitewww.scharffenberger.com1
- WikipediaScharffen Berger Chocolate Maker
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ7430969
Sources
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- 1WikidataScharffen Berger on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaScharffen Berger on Wikipedia
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- 4Wikimedia CommonsScharffen Berger photo by Photo: Andreas Praefcke, CC BY 3.0