When was chocolate first brought to Europe?
History of chocolate
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Lindt & Sprüngli AG, a Swiss-based concern with global reach, had its start in 1845 as the Sprüngli  family confectionery shop in Zurich that added a solid-chocolate factory the same year the process for making solid chocolate was developed and later bought  Lindt's factory. Besides Nestlé, several chocolate companies had their start in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Cadbury was manufacturing boxed chocolates in England by 1868.[2] In 1893, Milton S. Hershey purchased chocolate processing equipment at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and soon began the career of Hershey's chocolates with chocolate-coated caramels.