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Good Honest Chocolate

Chocolate Making

Our family is passionate about crafting New Zealand’s finest chocolate. So passionate in fact, we’re four generations in and counting. We’re sticklers for quality. Keen to roll up our sleeves and get involved in the day-to-day. You’ll often find Andrew and Brian tinkering about on the factory floor!

Our search for the most precise machinery takes us around the world. While at home in Porirua, we make sure our wonderful staff are supported and search for ways to make our factory operations more sustainable.

Find out how we're innovating to make the best even better.

Powered by renewable energy

Meridian Energy powers our factory. They only generate electricity from 100% renewable energy sources like wind, sun and water.

Made in New Zealand since 1896

All Whittaker's products are made in our one factory in Porirua, New Zealand.

Our timeline

2021

Good Egg Award winners again!

We're proud to be recognised for chocolate making that is better for the people and the planet.

2020

Waste reduction plan begins

Reducing internal process packaging, switching to recyclable alternatives and educating staff.

2019

Build for a new bean roasting facility starts

We're committed to making world-class Beans to Bear chocolate from Porirua.

2019

Waste audit completed

Organic Wealth audit our waste to inform our waste reduction plan.

2018

New production line installed for gifting range

Allowing us to launch our Artisan and Minimix assortments, the gifts to give, the gifts to get.

2017

Supporting renewable energy generation

With Meridian Energy.

2016

English language support for staff

We begin our ongoing partnership with Aspire 2 to create a programme to support our diverse workforce.

2012

Swiss Roll Refiner arrives

Innovation continues, making our Creamy Milk chocolate even smoother.

1969

Our factory moves to Porirua

From Christchurch to Wellington and finally, Porirua. To this day, it remains our heart and home.

1896

Whittaker's company established

Arguably, the most important year of all!

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What else we're doing

Renewable Energy

There's something in the wind...

We’ve been working with Meridian to make our delicious chocolate more energy efficient: 9.7% more efficient per tonne of chocolate to be exact!

We chose and continue to choose Meridian as part of our commitment to sustainability, they generate electricity from 100% renewable sources like wind, sun and water.

To celebrate our partnership, we made a very special Creamy Milk ‘Brooklyn Block’ in 2017. It was inspired by Meridian’s iconic wind turbine in the suburb of Brooklyn, Wellington, and was available to buy in local stores.

Sustainable Policies

Good Egg Award winners, again!

Easter is the biggest chocolate buying holiday of the year. So, social good organisations, Be Slavery Free, Green America, Inkota and Mighty Earth, release a scorecard to help consumers make informed decisions. It grades chocolate companies on criteria like, living income which is a basic right, child labour, and agroforestry (how land is managed in and around crops).

We’re incredibly proud to have been awarded the ‘Good Egg Award’ for the second year running and to be listed among the top 4 chocolate companies in the world. This award recognises Whittaker's as an industry-leading company that’s shown the greatest improvement in sustainable policies and demonstrates our continued commitment to quality in all areas of chocolate making.

We appreciate the recognition and also understand that our work is not done, so keep checking back as we post our progress!
Download the 2021 Easter shopping scorecard (PDF | 4.8MB)

Frequently Asked Questions

We'd love to take you on the journey! There are a number of steps to our chocolate making process. Go behind the scenes on our Beans to Bar page and find out how we do it.

All of our products are proudly made at our one factory in Porirua, New Zealand.

We are unable to offer tours because of our relatively small size and tight factory regulations. But you can still get a sneak peek of what goes on behind the scenes on our Beans to Bar page!

We believe in investing in our wonderful staff. So, at Whittaker's we have a carefully curated Wellness Programme which focuses on physical health and social wellbeing to keep our team healthy and happy. It's made up of a set of initiatives including, gym memberships, free fruit in the workplace, bespoke English language lessons, eye care, hearing tests – and more!