Goldkenn

Goldkenn is an industrial Swiss chocolate producer based in Le Locle. It was founded in Geneva in 1980, by Steven Goldstein and Christian Belce-Kennedy, the company name being the combination of the two surnames. The company started selling old-looking wooden chocolate boxes in duty-free stores, in collaboration with Favarger.^[1]^[2]

Goldkenn essentially produces liquor-filled chocolate bars and pralines. The Goldkenn pralines are distinctively packed into gold bullion replicas. Milk chocolate gold coins are also produced.^[3] Small Goldkenn ingot-shaped chocolate bars were notably served on Swissair flights in the 1990s.^[4]^[5]

Goldkenn is part of the Choco-Diffusion group since 2010. It moved from Geneva to Le Locle in 2011.^{[citation needed]}

In 2014, the campaign for the Save our Swiss Gold initiative, calling on the Swiss National Bank to maintain minimum gold reserves, was launched. The supporters of the initiative displayed a pile of Goldkenn bullion replicas at the press conference.^[6]

The Goldkenn logo features the Matterhorn.^[7]

↑ Morgan, Colleen (7 November 2017). "Ten Easy Pieces: Meet entrepreneur and 'chocolate king' Steven Goldstein". The Moodie Davitt Report. Retrieved 29 March 2022. We founded Goldkenn (the combination of our two surnames) and produced the product which has become an icon: a gold bar wrapped in packaging to combine two of Switzerland's best-known symbols, its chocolates and its banks.
↑ Guertchakoff, Serge (12 January 2015). "Favarger, le plus petit des grands chocolatiers". Bilan. Retrieved 29 March 2022. Dès 1980, la société obtient un contrat «private label» pour une start-up appelée à connaître un immense succès: Goldkenn, créée par Christian Belce-Kennedy et Steve Goldstein. Il s'agit des fameux lingots dorés remplis de chocolats. Cette idée géniale fera un tel tabac que lorsque Goldkenn rompt ses relations avec Favarger en 1995, ce client représentait alors environ 60% du chiffre d'affaires! [In 1980, the company obtained a "private label" contract for a start-up destined to experience immense success: Goldkenn, created by Christian Belce-Kennedy and Steve Goldstein. These are the famous golden ingots filled with chocolates. This brilliant idea will be such a hit that when Goldkenn breaks its relations with Favarger in 1995, this client then represented around 60% of the turnover!]
↑ Auzias, Dominique (2017). Amateur de Chocolat 2017 Petit Futé. Petit Futé. ISBN 9791033150664. Goldkenn et ses célèbres lingots et pièces de monnaie en chocolat [Goldkenn and its famous gold chocolate bars and coins]
↑ Airline, Ship & Catering Onboard Services Magazine, Volume 22. International Publishing Company of America. 1990. p. 13. In Zurich, Swissair's current flex - meal for Air Canada includes foie gras au truffle, cold cuts and salads, fresh fruit salads and a Goldkenn chocolate bar.
↑ Conan, Eric (28 August 1997). "Enquête sur le malaise suisse". L'Express. Retrieved 29 March 2022. C'était, depuis longtemps, une délicate - et inimitable - attention de Swissair. Ses passagers avaient droit, avec leur café, à un délicieux chocolat praliné en forme de lingot, enveloppé dans un papier doré. Un petit lingot d'or. Un lingot suisse. Il y a trois mois, la compagnie aérienne a pris la décision de remplacer ce symbole par un autre: le chocolat, toujours suisse, se présente désormais sous la silhouette du mont Cervin. [It was, for a long time, a delicate - and inimitable - attention of Swissair. Its passengers were entitled, with their coffee, to a delicious chocolate praline in the shape of an ingot, wrapped in golden paper. A small gold bar. A Swiss ingot. Three months ago, the airline took the decision to replace this symbol with another chocolate: still Swiss, but now appearing under the shape of the Matterhorn.]
↑ "La stabilité financière de la Suisse en question". La Liberté. 23 October 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
↑ "Goldkenn refreshes Goldbar recipe and unveils updated logo". The Moodie Davitt Report. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2022. The logo has been updated and features the famous Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland.

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