Marabou (chocolate)

[4] However, the actual production didn't start until 1919 due to shortages in cocoa supply caused by World War I. Throne Holst's second son, Henning, took over Sweden's first chocolate factory in Sundbyberg, just north of Stockholm, in 1918.

Over time, the Sundbyberg factory was not sufficient for the growing demand, so in the 1970s, production moved, after 60 years in one location, to newly built premises in Upplands Väsby, where it remains today.

Marabou chocolate is available in a number of European countries and was until September 2011 sold by IKEA in Canada, Israel, and Poland.

Marabou chocolate is sold by IKEA in 23 countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ireland, the UAE, the United Kingdom and the US.

In 2013, there was press coverage about Marabou's use of palm oil, which, according to Greenpeace, has a negative effect on the animals and people of the world's rain forests.