Côte d'Or (brand)

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Côte d'Or store in Brussels, Belgium
Côte d'Or store in Brussels, Belgium

Côte d'Or is a producer of Belgian chocolate currently owned by Kraft Foods, the second largest food company in the world after Nestlé, formerly owned by the Philip Morris Companies Inc., now known as Altria Group. Côte d'Or was originally created by Charles Neuhaus, a chocolate manufacturer who created the name Côte d'Or (French for Gold Coast) referring to the old name of contemporary Ghana, the source of a lot of the cacao beans used in chocolate manufacturing.



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