My Chocolate Top Hit. Número 2: Ritter Sport. Square and German.

One more beautyfull chocolate, my favorite, very colorful and tasty. Ritter Sport. 

Always asked parents to bring it to us from trip to Germany!  My favorite is hazelnuts and marcipan . Company celebrate 102 years this 2014 ! Congratulations!

1912. Everything started when ...

... Alfred Eugen and Clara Ritter founded the chocolate and confectionary factory “Alfred Ritter Canstatt” in Stuttgart. There the first “Ritter”-chocolates were produced and sold. Clara Ritter’s proposal, ...

... to produce a square chocolate bar quickly meets with agreement in the family. Her argument: “We’ll make a chocolate that fits into the pocket of every sports jacket, doesn’t break, and still weighs the same as a normal long bar of chocolate.” The chocolate square is named “Ritter’s Sport Chocolate”. 

A revolution in ...

... the chocolate market: Entrepreneur Alfred Otto Ritter makes the courageous decision to introduce a “colourful palette”. Each variety is assigned a cheerful colour to characterise it. Another building block of the brand is created.