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Lindt becomes 3rd chocolate manufacturer in North America
Swiss chocolate maker Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli purchased Kansas City based boxed chocolate maker Russell Stover Candies for an undisclosed amount. The deal will make Lindt the third-largest chocolate manufacturer in North America.
Boxes of Russell Sover chocolates are displayed on a shelf at a Rite Aid store on July 14, 2014 in San Anselmo, California. Swiss chocolate maker Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli announced that it had agreed to purchase Kansas City based boxed choclate maker Russell Stover Candies for an undisclosed amount. The deal will make Lindt the third-largest chocolate manufacturer in North America. (Getty Images)
A box of Russell Stover chocolates is displayed on July 14, 2014 in San Anselmo, California. Swiss chocolate maker Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli announced that it had agreed to purchase Kansas City based boxed choclate maker Russell Stover Candies for an undisclosed amount. The deal will make Lindt the third-largest chocolate manufacturer in North America. (Getty Images)
Boxes of Russell Sover chocolates are displayed on a shelf at a Rite Aid store on July 14, 2014 in San Anselmo, California. Swiss chocolate maker Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli announced that it had agreed to purchase Kansas City based boxed choclate maker Russell Stover Candies for an undisclosed amount. The deal will make Lindt the third-largest chocolate manufacturer in North America. (Getty Images)
Chocolate makers of Swiss company Lindt & Sprüngli work on chocolate during the inaugural evening of the 16th ‘Salon du Chocolat’ (chocolate fair) on October 27, 2010 in Paris. (AFP/Getty Images)
A Lindt & Spruengli brand chocolate Easter bunny sits atop a Strandkorb, or beach basket, on the snow-covered Strandbad Wannsee beach during its opening for the year on March 29, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The Swiss chocolatier lost a final appeal battle in Germany the day before in a 12-year trademark dispute over its exclusive rights to the golden-foil wrapped, rabbit-shaped confection. Despite continued unseasonably cold temperatures in the country, organizers opened the beach for bathers in time for the last weekend of March, when Easter Sunday is expected to be colder than the previous Christmas Day had been. (Getty Images)
This combo of photos shows a gold gummy bear made by Haribo (R) and a foil-wrapped chocolate ‘Teddy’ (L) on a table in front of in Cologne, western Germany, on December 18, 2012. The German gummy bear company won a court battle against a Swiss maker of chocolate teddy bears over the marketing of their sweets. The regional court in the western German city of Cologne upheld the complaint of gummy bear manufacturer Haribo against the distribution of Switzerland’s Lindt and Spruengli’s foil-wrapped ‘Teddy’ bears. (AFP/Getty Images)
