Toms International
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Toms International produces high-quality chocolate, liquorice and sugar confectionery in Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom. "Toms employs 1,200 - 1,700 employees depending on season and annually produces 50,000 tons of chocolate and sugar confectionery."
Founded in 1924 as Tom Chokoladefabrik A/S but Copenhagen chemists Hans Trojel and V.H. Meyer, the company is now a world-renowned chocolate producer. Originally the chocolate was a side item for sale in the chemists retail shop on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen, the founders soon began launching their own products on Prags Boulevard between 1925 and 1929. The company was taken over by Victor B. Strand in 1942, who shortly acquired (1954-1956) A/S Anthon Berg. In 1961, a new factory was designed by the famous Danish modernist architect Arne Jacobsen and consisted of a 22,000 m2 factory hall and a 3,000 m2 administration building on a site measuring 22 hectares.
Around the time of the factory's completion in 1962, Toms acquires A/S J. Høeghs Lakrids og Sukkervarefabrikker, which shortly was renamed Pingvin Lakrids. Toms final acquisition was that of A/S Galle & Jessen, in 1971.
