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Bean-to-bar chocolate makers Foundry Chocolate of Silverdale, have been awarded eight medals – including three Gold – for their single-origin craft chocolate bars in the 2025 Outstanding Food Producer Awards, announced Tuesday, March 18.
The Outstanding Food Producer Awards, overseen by head judge Lauraine Jacobs, celebrate the inspiring Kiwis who harvest, grow and produce New Zealand’s outstanding food and drink.
In the chocolate category, Foundry Chocolate were awarded Gold medals for their chocolate bars made from cacao beans sourced from Mexico, Tanzania and Vietnam. They also collected four Silvers and a Bronze, for a total of eight medals.
Chocolate maker and Foundry Chocolate co-founder David Herrick says he is thrilled with the result, especially after Foundry won Best in Show at the Northwest Chocolate Festival in Seattle, USA last year. The company has also recently appointed a North American distributor for their bean-to-bar craft chocolate.
“We are very pleased with these results and the ongoing awards recognition for our craft chocolate, Herrick says.” To have all of our entries win such prestigious awards, including winning three Gold medals, and to be recognised among so many other skilled food producers, is humbling.”
“This is recognition of the continual work we are doing to improve our chocolate making craft, and it goes to show that while Foundry is carefully growing both in New Zealand and offshore, our investment in the time we’ve dedicated to continually learning, testing and improving is working.”
The winning chocolate bars can be ordered at www.foundrychocolate.co.nz and at their retailers.
