The Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company was a Philadelphia based corporation that existed from 1911 to 1984.
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Founded in 1911, The Blumenthal Brothers produced many candies whose popularity still exists today, as well as many chocolates that are no longer manufactured. The most well-known products of the Blumenthal Chocolate Company; Goobers, Sno Caps and Raisinets were introduced in the late 1920s. By the late 1940s Blumenthal candies became popular snacks at movie theaters throughout the United States. In 1968 Louis Perez, a Blumenthal employee, took the company to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, claiming he was forced to work in exposure to a heavy concentration of dust and excessive heat in his employment,[1] the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed the lower courts decision forcing the company to provide compensation to Louis Perez. In 1974 the company would again be taken to court, this time for falsification of its gross income by secretly manufacturing products outside the state of Pennsylvania, keeping on average $5 million a year from being disclosed.[2] The court cases crippled the company financially and eventually lead to bankruptcy, in 1984 Nestlé bought out the company and acquired the rights to its products.[3]