Mr. and Mrs. Robert, a French couple from Reunion Island, started a small artisanal chocolate company in 1940 in Toamasina, on the east coast of Madagascar. The chocolate factory transformed Madagascan cocoa from the vast plains of Brickaville (a sugar town lying 100 km from Tamatave). Around 1948, the family gave the company to a French settler who relocated the factory to Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar. Following the Malagasy Uprising and subsequent independence, the French settlers gradually left the Big Island and the nationalization of the economy began. In 1977, Robert Chocalaterie was owned by a French family by the name of Berger, who sold to a Malagasy business group run by the Ramanandraibe family. The Ramandraibe group is currently working closely with the farmers of Brickaville to rebuild local expertise in cocoa production.
Madagascar (Soanierana)
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