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chocolate brands Carma and Cacao Barry, organized the World
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By 1988, the company was producing callets, small drop-shaped chocolate pieces designed to optimize the workability of chocolate. Dosing, melting and tempering work better with smaller drops than with the original 5 kg (11 lb) blocks of chocolate.
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Callebaut was established in 1911 by Octave Callebaut in Wieze, Belgium. His chocolate company used the same factory building his grandfather Eugène Callebaut founded as a family-run brewing and milling company called De Ploeg in 1850.
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