Haigh's Chocolates
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | 1915 |
| Headquarters | Adelaide, Australia |
| No. of locations | 12 |
| Area served | Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney |
| Industry | Confectionery |
| Products | Chocolates |
| Website | http://www.haighschocolates.com.au/ |
Haigh's Chocolates is a company selling high quality chocolate products to customers in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. The company is based in Adelaide, South Australia, where it was founded in 1915 by Alfred E. Haigh. There are six outlets within the Adelaide metropolitan region and five in Melbourne, as well as the first Sydney store established in 2005. Haigh's conducts free tours of its factory on Greenhill Road.
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[edit] History
Alfred E. Haigh was born in 1877 in Adelaide, South Australia, but learned about chocolate manufacture with Lindt & Sprüngli in Switzerland.[citation needed] His first shop, on Beehive Corner in Rundle Mall, still operates. The décor of the shop remains the same as it was since it opened, although now it directly faces a competitor, Darrell Lea Chocolates.
In the 1950s and the 1960s, Haigh's chocolates were sold in cinemas by "Tray Girls" and "Tray Boys". When cinema attendance fell, he ventured to Melbourne to expand his already popular business.[1]
[edit] Easter Bilby
Rabbits being somewhat unpopular in Australia, as an alternative to the traditional Easter Bunny Haigh's began offering a chocolate Easter Bilby in 1993.[2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Our company history. Haigh's Chocolates. Retrieved on 2007-09-14.
- ^ The Easter Bilby. Australian Bilby Appreciation Society. Retrieved on 2007-09-14.
