Wilbur Chocolate Candy Store

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00:01:00 1 Cocoa Sourcing
00:01:10 2 Wilbur Chocolate Candy Store & Museum
00:02:09 3 Wilbur Factory Closure
00:02:57 4 Wilbur Buds
00:03:39 5 See also



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Wilbur Chocolate is one of four brands manufactured by Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate North America. Most of the Wilbur brand products were produced in plants chocolate manufacturing company located in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Wilbur Chocolate was founded in Philadelphia in 1865 by Henry Oscar Wilbur and Samuel Croft. Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate NA produces hundreds of millions of pounds of chocolate and confectionery products a year. These ingredients are sold to food and candy manufactures across the Americas.
The company was bought by Cargill in 1992 and is part of that company's cocoa and chocolate labels, which also includes Peter's Chocolate (bought from Nestlé in 2002), Gerkens Cacao, and Veliche Belgian chocolateCargill closed the Wilbur Chocolate Factory in early 2016. By the summer of 2018 the former factory was being converted into condos.

A Great Gift and a Great Vacation Idea - Factory Tours

Links:
Hershey's Chocolate Tour -
Utz Factory Tour -
Crayola Experience -
Julius Sturgis Tour -
Wilbur Chocolate -
Paul Reed Smith Guitars -

We hear it the news almost every day:

More US factories shutting down and moving to another country—others shutting down altogether.

But wait-- Here’s a NEWSFLASH:

Many US factories are alive and well across the country-- and factory tours may be your best travel idea this year.

For children and adults, it’s a real-life adventure to see familiar products being made—from crayons and electric guitars to chocolates, potato chips, pretzels, and many more.

I’m speaking from experience: In the past year, my grandson and I have taken five factory tours—and enjoyed every minute of them all:

Crayola (Easton, Pa);
Paul Reed Smith Guitars (Stevensville, MD);
Hershey’s Chocolate World (Hershey, Pa);
Wilbur Chocolate Company (Lititz, Pa);
Utz Potato Chip Factory (Hanover, Pa);
Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery (Lititz, Pa).

These are just a few of the many factory tours in the US. Most are free, and some require reservations (Paul Reed Smith).

Count me in: I’ve become a factory-tour enthusiast, and on this snowed-in day, I’ve started my list for tours to take in 2016.

I strongly recommend taking a factory tour this year, and if you do, I predict it won’t be long before you’ll be taking another one.