Historic building· Beyoğlu, İstanbul

Beyoğlu Çikolatacısı

Beyoğlu Çikolatacısı is a historic building in Beyoğlu, İstanbul; Lider Çikolata was founded in Istanbul in 1954 as a chocolate workshop by the Ganapulos family.

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Lider Çikolata was founded in Istanbul in 1954 as a chocolate workshop by the Ganapulos family. While struggling with the country's conditions and difficulties of the time, the family wished to popularise chocolate among the public, which until then only a certain segment consumed as a luxury treat, and sought to use the scarce raw cocoa (cocoa and cocoa butter) more effectively by combining it with a more readily available product. After Mr Ganapulos's death, management of the business passed to his wife's brother, Dr Ganapoulos, but Dr…

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