Thanks to three enterprising Cloetta brothers from Switzerland, Cloetta is the Nordic region’s oldest chocolate and confectionery producer. By the merger with LEAF in February 2012, Cloetta also becomes a leading confectionery company in the Nordic region, and with market leading positions in Italy and the Netherlands. n 1848 Bernhard Cloetta left his hometown of Bergün, Switzerland, and headed north. After a few years he was followed by his brothers Christoffer and Nutin, and for a time the three studied chocolate-making in Paris. At the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897, Cloetta’s pavilion created a sensation by displaying two magnificent life-sized statues of Sweden’s King Oscar and Queen Sophia. The statues were made of solid chocolate and the newspapers reported that the King was delighted. The same year, Cloetta was commissioned to provision Andrée’s North Pole expedition with chocolate – both pure chocolate and chocolate supplemented with meat extract.