Lake Champlain Chocolates 

Bob Glover introduced Allyson from Lake Champlain Chocolates. Allyson was raised in Montpelier, starting at LCC in 1993, currently as the Director of Marketing And Customer Experience.  She serves on Shelburne’s Development Review Board, tutors English through the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and plays clarinet for the Hinesburg Community band.

 

Allyson began by telling us chocolate IS breakfast food and passed out chocolates!  She described what you ought to sense, see, hear, taste.  

 

Jim Lantman founded LCC, having attended The University of Vermont. He decided to stay here and start a chocolate company. 

 

LCC is certified as B Corporation, indicating they are leaders in a global movement for an inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy.  They treat everyone equally, noting that 100% of the chocolate is fair trade and locally sourced.  LCC works hard to improve the lives of their  employees and the farmers around the world from whom their cacao beans come from.The cacao comes from all over the world including the Dominican Republic,  Peru, West Africa and Indonesia.

 

For the rest of their products, they buy local first.  The heavy cream, honey, and maple syrup all come from Vermont.

 

In addition, they donated 60,000 pieces of chocolate last year,conducted a company wide community service day last year, cleanin up Leddy Park, planted trees at The Intervale Center Nursery, who planted 68,000 trees around the state.  They also hold “Round Ups” in their stores for The Conscious Kid, Community Sailing School and Help A Neighbor. Finally, they sell one bar per year where  the receipts go to various recipients, this year a community in Peru from which their cacao comes from.