UPPER HANOVER >> A fire at the Blommer Chocolate plant outside East Greenville drew in nearly 20 firefighting units but resulted in no injuries and no damage to the plant. The alarm was sounded just ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- More than 200 workers at the Blommer Chocolate Company manufacturing plant in the Fulton River District will be laid off when the plant is shut down beginning at the end of May.

Blommer Chocolate is being sold to Japanese ingredient company Fuji Oil Holding, ending three generations of family ownership of the iconic cocoa manufacturer. Blommer, founded in Chicago in 1939, ...

CHICAGO (STMW) --Chocolate production was halted and more than 100 workers were evacuated from the Blommer Chocolate Company early Tuesday when a fire broke out at the West Town factory. About 5:20 ...

A Japanese company plans to pay $750 million for Blommer Chocolate, the third-generation, family-owned chocolate manufacturer whose River West operations make the city smell like chocolate. Fuji Oil ...

Carolin Fesenberg joined Blommer Chocolate in the role of Sustainability Program Manager, effective November 1 st 2012. She will report to Kip Walk as the Sustainability Director. Carolin will work ...

Blommer Chocolate is saying a bittersweet goodbye to its long-time home in the heart of downtown Chicago. The chocolate supplier has announced that it will shutter its River West manufacturing plant, ...

After three generations of family ownership, Blommer Chocolate will sell its cocoa manufacturing empire—including its famously fragrant downtown Chicago factory—to a Japanese company for $750 million.

Instead of delicious cocoa, Chicagoans caught a strong whiff of smoke emanating from the Fulton River District’s famous Blommer Chocolate Company as the building caught fire this afternoon. Visible ...

Chicago firefighters took about 45 minutes to extinguish a machinery fire on the roof of the Blommer Chocolate factory in the Fulton River District neighborhood, authorities said. No injuries were ...

The tug of war between the Blommer family and Cargill Inc. for control of the Chicago-based chocolate-maker has taken another twist, finally a happy one for the Blommers. Blommer Chocolate Co.

Days after announcing the closure of its Chicago manufacturing plant, Blommer Chocolate reports it will lay off hundreds of workers here. The 226 expected layoffs will begin at the end of May, ...