Lindt & Sprüngli
Company-provided description, not an official-source fact. Certifications, capacities, years and market positions stated in it are the company's own claims until a record below confirms them.
Fabricant suisse de chocolat haut de gamme qui fabrique les marques Lindt, Ghirardelli et Caffarel distribuées via des réseaux de vente en gros de produits alimentaires raffinés et de confiserie dans le monde entier.
Lindt & Sprüngli, fondée à Zurich en 1845, est l'un des fabricants de chocolat haut de gamme les plus emblématiques de Suisse, employant environ 14 600 personnes et générant plus de 5 milliards de francs de chiffre d'affaires annuel. Le groupe possède les marques Lindt, Ghirardelli, Russell Stover, Caffarel et Hofbauer, offrant aux acheteurs grossistes un portefeuille complet de confiseries haut de gamme et grand public. Lindt approvisionne les grossistes en produits alimentaires raffinés, les opérateurs de boutiques hors taxes, les grands magasins et les détaillants de confiseries spécialisées dans plus de 120 pays. La gamme Lindt SELECTION et les produits cadeaux saisonniers sont très performants dans les programmes d'achat de cadeaux en gros. Son héritage suisse et son positionnement de maître chocolatier soutiennent des prix premium constants sur les marchés de gros compétitifs.
- Type
- Not established by any record (our catalog import lists it as manufacturer; that is not evidence of the role)
- Role
- Role not established by any record
- Location
- Kilchberg, Switzerland
- Founded
- Not established: our records disagree. 1900 in the founding-year field of our catalogue record; 1845 in the description text of our catalogue record.
- Website
- lindt-spruengli.com
- Categories
- Confiserie et snacks, Épicerie fine et gourmet
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 2 official records from 1 official source are on file. 4 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. Nothing here confirms manufacturing, ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- Legally registered and still active (record type: registry-active-global) [official record; status green] Shows the register lists the registration as active on the date we read it. It does not show how busy the business is. checked 2026-09-07. SHAB, Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. effective since 2026-10-14. OpenSanctions
- Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-10-20. Domain registry record
- Operating permit for the production site (record type: operating-permit; this record does not by itself establish manufacturing) [official record; status green] Shows an authority issued a permit for an installation at this site for the activity named in the record. A permit is not an inspection report and not an observation that production is running today. checked 2026-10-13. SHAB, Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce
- Legal entity ID lapsed (record type: lei-lapsed-by-name) [our own observation, not an official record; status amber] A search of the GLEIF register by company name found an identifier under this name that was not renewed. The match is by name only, so it may belong to another legal entity. This does not mean the company closed. checked 2026-07-21. GLEIF
- No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. checked 2026-10-14. OpenSanctions
Relationships
2 relationship(s) on file. Each line names the other party, the relationship as its source records it, and the source. A record of a relationship is not a finding about control beyond what it literally says.
Recorded in a source
- AB01-0000023655: Holds the site's permit, registry number AB01-0000023655. SHAB, Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce
Candidates, not confirmed
- lindt-spruengli.com: Website of this business. Source record
Import rules for these goods
- EU imports of food of animal origin and many other food categories must be pre-notified in TRACES and enter through border control posts. European Commission (TRACES)
- US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA