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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made

Last updated on: May 3, 2013 13:10 IST

Image: Two women walk past a chocolate Easter bunny at Belgian chocolate maker Neuhaus in Brussels.
Photographs: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

The chocolate industry, a steadily growing, $50 billion-a-year worldwide business centered on the sale and consumption of chocolate, is prevalent on five out of seven continents, according to chocolatesource.com.

Big Chocolate, as it is also called, is essentially an oligopoly between major international chocolate companies in Europe and the US. These US companies, such as Mars and Hershey's alone, generate $13 billion a year in chocolate sales and account for two-thirds of US manufacturers, says globalexchange.org.

Let's take a look at how chocolate is manufactured around the world.

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Tags: US , Hershey , Mars , Europe

Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Yves Herman/Reuters

Chocolate chips at Barry Callebaut factory in Lebbeke, Belgium.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Yves Herman/Reuters

A worker at Barry Callebaut factory inspects liquid chocolate in Lebbeke, Belgium.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Yves Herman/Reuters

Liquid chocolate at Barry Callebaut factory in Lebbeke, Belgium.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Michaela Rehle/Reuters

Chocolate is filled into round moulds in the Brandt chocolate manufacture in Landshut, Germany.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Michaela Rehle/Reuters

An employee moves scrap of chocolate Santa Claus figures in a melt machine at the Brandt chocolate manufacture in Landshut, Germany.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Michaela Rehle/Reuters

An employee places chocolate Santa Claus figures in the packaging machine at the Brandt chocolate manufacture in Landshut, Germany.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Michaela Rehle/Reuters

Santa Claus figures are pictured in the Brandt chocolate manufacture in Landshut, Germany.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Jacky Naegelen/Reuters

A chocolate-maker at La Maison du Chocolat spreads chocolate in preparations for Easter creations at their workshop in Nanterre, near Paris, France.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Nikola Solic/Reuters

Belgian chocolate-maker Christine Scholtes-Covic smiles while making chocolates in her Lika Chocolate workshop in the village of Rakovica, in the Croatian region of Lika, some 150km south of Zagreb.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Stephanie Ault, an employee of Mast Brothers Chocolate, takes chocolate bars out of moulds at the company's factory in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Conor Hagen, an employee of Mast Brothers Chocolate, hand grinds cacao beans at the company's factory in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

An employee places almonds on pralines at the plant of Swiss chocolate producer Lindt & Spruengli AG in Kilchberg near Zurich.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

Employee put pralines in boxes at the plant of Swiss chocolate producer Lindt & Spruengli AG in Kilchberg near Zurich.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Enny Nuraheni/Reuters

A worker monitors liquid chocolate at PT Bumitangerang Mesindotama, Indonesia's third-largest cocoa grinder, in Tangerang, West Java.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Adam Tanner/Reuters

Workers oversee a chocolate line at the Harry & David factory in Medford, Oregon, United States.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Ruben Sprich/Reuters

Toblerone factory in Bern, Switzerland.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Herwig Prammer/Reuters

Dietmar Muthenthaler, right, Demel's head confectioner, watches a colleague covering a Sachertorte with liquid chocolate in Vienna, Austria.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

A Belarussian worker displays chocolate Easter eggs at Kommunarka factory in Minsk.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

An advertising display for Svitoch chocolates at a shop in downtown Kiev, Ukraine.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Umit Bektas/Reuters

A worker checks chocolates on a production line at Konya Seker Sugar Factory in Cumra, a small town about 50km south of the central Anatolian city of Konya in Turkey.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Dwi Oblo/Reuters

A worker shows a bar of chocolate at Monggo Chocolate factory in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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Photographs: Vincent Kessler/Reuters

An employee uses a magnifying glass to check samples of M&M's candies at the production line of candy and chocolate maker Mars Chocolate France's plant in Haguenau, eastern France.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Yves Herman/Reuters

A chocolate bar at Barry Callebaut factory in Lebbeke, Belgium.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Bars of Mast Brothers Chocolate are hand-wrapped at the factory in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Adam Tanner/Reuters

A worker dumps white chocolate into a melting bin at the Harry & David factory in Medford, Oregon, United States.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Ruben Sprich/Reuters

Workers pack the traditional Toblerone chocolate in the Toblerone factory in Bern, Switzerland.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Umit Bektas/Reuters

Employees work in a chocolate factory in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep.

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Stunning images reveal how chocolate is made


Photographs: Herwig Prammer/Reuters

A confectioner of Hotel Sacher brushes Sachertorte in a cake factory in Vienna, Austria.

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Photographs: Bogdan Cristel/Reuters

Women take photos of love messages added to a large heart-shaped chocolate piece made in Romania by a local factory near Bucharest.