Icam expands to the US

Italian private label chocolate company Icam has announced it is expanding its manufacturing programme with a new US sales office operating under the brand Agostoni Chocolate.

Located in Los Angeles, California, it will be working directly with North American retailers and consumer brand companies to develop chocolate products based on the company’s private label service model that offers a wide range of stock and custom options. 


Carla Baroni, head of export for the company, says, “The decision to open a direct sales office in the US was based on our strong impression that North American consumers have become very sensitive to chocolate product quality.”

In 2009, the Agostoni factory produced nearly 7000 tons of private label product, the equivalent of 70 million 100g chocolate bars. It is heavily involved with some of the world’s most important sources for premium organic cocoa and unlike most chocolate producers, it winnows and grinds raw cocoa in-house to produce cocoa liquor, butter and powder-crucial basic ingredients for finished chocolate.