The founders of Portland, Oregon-based Creo Chocolate focus on building relationships, both with quality-driven cocoa farmers and customers seeking a treat, a pick-me-up or a concerned listener.

Bean-to-bar chocolate maker Fine & Raw has partnered with plant-based, fast-casual restaurant chain by CHLOE. to develop two unroasted, 28-gram chocolate bars.

Askinosie makes this 61% dark chocolate with Trinitario cocoa beans sourced directly from farmers in Mababu, Tanzania.

As part of his conservation work, co-founder Jerry Toth spent several years cultivating an organic fruit tree orchard that features cacao trees interplanted with more than 50 different species of tropical fruit trees.

When Denise Castronovo launched Castronovo Chocolate in 2013 with her husband Jim, she brought with her a PhD in ecology and a passion for rainforest conservation. So to her it was only natural that her company start in an actual forest - with the cocoa beans.

AOG Foods has introduced a variety of new items under the YAAL and Choco Soleil brands.

Fine & Raw has added two new chocolate bars to its lineup of bars, confections, butters, spreads and more.

High-school sweethearts and native Venezuelans Ricardo Trillos and Anelith Ortega love chocolate just as much as the love each other.