Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
（重定向自Ghirardelli）
![1864 advertisement from The California Miner's Almanac](/Images/godic/202501/15/The_California_Miner's_Almanac_-_1864_-_Ghirardelli_Chocolate1206.jpg")
![1871 Ghirardelli Advertisement](/Images/godic/202501/15/Early_Ghirardelli_Advertisement1206.jpg")
![A can of chocolate from the 20th century](/Images/godic/202501/15/Ghirardelli_Chocolate_can_photographed_March_23_2013-85881206.jpg")
![Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco](/Images/godic/202501/15/Ghirardelli_Square_11206.jpg")
The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a United States division of Swiss confectioner Lindt & Sprüngli. The company was founded by and is named after Italian chocolatier Domenico Ghirardelli, who, after working in South America, moved to California. The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company was incorporated in 1852, and is the third-oldest chocolate company in the United States, after Baker's Chocolate and Whitman's.