UPPER HANOVER >> A fire at the Blommer Chocolate plant outside East Greenville drew in nearly 20 firefighting units but resulted in no injuries and no damage to the plant. The alarm was sounded just ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- More than 200 workers at the Blommer Chocolate Company manufacturing plant in the Fulton River District will be laid off when the plant is shut down beginning at the end of May.

Blommer Chocolate is being sold to Japanese ingredient company Fuji Oil Holding, ending three generations of family ownership of the iconic cocoa manufacturer. Blommer, founded in Chicago in 1939, ...

CHICAGO (STMW) --Chocolate production was halted and more than 100 workers were evacuated from the Blommer Chocolate Company early Tuesday when a fire broke out at the West Town factory. About 5:20 ...

A Japanese company plans to pay $750 million for Blommer Chocolate, the third-generation, family-owned chocolate manufacturer whose River West operations make the city smell like chocolate. Fuji Oil ...

Blommer Chocolate is saying a bittersweet goodbye to its long-time home in the heart of downtown Chicago. The chocolate supplier has announced that it will shutter its River West manufacturing plant, ...

Instead of delicious cocoa, Chicagoans caught a strong whiff of smoke emanating from the Fulton River District’s famous Blommer Chocolate Company as the building caught fire this afternoon. Visible ...

Chicago firefighters took about 45 minutes to extinguish a machinery fire on the roof of the Blommer Chocolate factory in the Fulton River District neighborhood, authorities said. No injuries were ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Blommer Chocolate Company (USA), the largest cocoa processor and ingredient chocolate supplier in North America, and DouxMatok (Israel/USA), a food tech company ...

The pungent aroma of roasting cocoa beans emanating from the Blommer Chocolate Company has tempted Chicagoans since 1939. Mike Auda of Blommer Chocolate shares the story of this family-run Chicago ...

The seductive smell of cocoa beans roasting, venting from a nondescript factory on West Kinzie Street, is how many Chicagoans know the Blommer Chocolate Co. — if we know it at all. Three-quarters of a ...

Days after announcing the closure of its Chicago manufacturing plant, Blommer Chocolate reports it will lay off hundreds of workers here. The 226 expected layoffs will begin at the end of May, ...