Goldkenn is an industrial Swiss

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producer based in

Le Locle Le Locle (; german: Luggli) is a Communes of Switzerland, municipality in the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It is situated in the Jura Mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. It is the third smallest city in Switz ...

. It was founded in

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in 1980, by Steven Goldstein and Christian Belce-Kennedy, the company name being the combination of the two surnames. The company started selling old-looking wooden chocolate boxes in

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stores, in collaboration with

Favarger Favarger is a Swiss chocolate making company founded by Jacques Foulquier in 1826 in Geneva. It is currently located in Versoix, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. History In 1826, Jacques Foulquier, a confectioner, moved to Geneva and started a ...

. Goldkenn essentially produces liquor-filled chocolate bars and pralines. The Goldkenn pralines are distinctively packed into gold bullion replicas. Milk chocolate gold coins are also produced. Small Goldkenn ingot-shaped chocolate bars were notably served on

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flights in the 1990s. Goldkenn is part of the Choco-Diffusion group since 2010. It moved from Geneva to Le Locle in 2011. In 2014, the campaign for the Save our Swiss Gold initiative, calling on the

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to maintain minimum gold reserves, was launched. The supporters of the initiative displayed a pile of Goldkenn bullion replicas at the press conference. The Goldkenn logo features the

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