Peace by Chocolate

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Peace by Chocolate
Industry Confectionery production
Founded2016
FounderTareq Hadhad
Headquarters
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
,
Canada
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsFood (Chocolate)
Website peacebychocolate.ca

Peace by Chocolate is a Syrian-Canadian chocolatier company based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. [1] The company was founded in 2016 by Tareq Hadhad, the son of a Syrian chocolatier, after moving to Canada as a refugee. [2] [3] [4]

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History

The Hadhad family began making chocolate in 1986 when Essam Hadhad opened a factory in Damascus. [5] The Hadhad family's chocolate-making facilities in Syria were bombed, they lived as refugees in Lebanon for three years before moving to Antigonish, Nova Scotia, in 2016. [6] Upon arriving in Canada, Essam's son Tareq opened a new chocolate company in Antigonish. [5]

In September 2020, Hadhad won a National Entrepreneurship Award for his positive impact as a new Canadian, and was one of the recipients of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards of 2020. [7] [8] On March 5, 2021, the company opened a storefront along the Halifax Waterfront. [9]

Jon Tattrie wrote a book about the Hadhad company in 2020. [10] A film adaptation of the family's story, also called Peace by Chocolate , premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021. [11]

In 2022, Tareq Hadhad was named as a panelist on Canada Reads , advocating for Omar El Akkad's novel What Strange Paradise . [12]

In March 2023, during United States President Joe Biden’s trip to Ottawa, Green Party leader Elizabeth May gave him a chocolate bar from Peace by Chocolate as a gift. [13]

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  2. ↑ "Nouvelle-Écosse: le chocolatier syrien Tareq Hadhad devient Canadien". January 16, 2020.
  3. ↑ Csernyik, Rob. "Good Company: Peace by Chocolate's Sweets With a Mission". www.barrons.com. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  4. ↑ "'This day is not one we'll be forgetting': Syrian refugee family opening clothing shop on first anniversary in Canada". Yahoo News. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  5. 1 2 Bloomberg, B. N. N. (June 28, 2019). "Meet the refugee-run company behind Trudeau's favourite chocolate - BNN Bloomberg". BNN.
  6. ↑ "Refugee and chocolate maker Tareq Hadhad now a Canadian citizen". Global News.
  7. ↑ Nichols, Trevor (2020-09-15). "Peace By Chocolate Founder Wins National Entrepreneurship Awards". Huddle. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  8. ↑ "Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards". Canadian Immigrant. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  9. ↑ "Peace by Chocolate expands to Halifax with signature store along the waterfront".
  10. ↑ "THE BOOK SHELF: Peace by Chocolate founder shares his dream and journey in new book". www.thechronicleherald.ca. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  11. ↑ Brooklyn Currie, "Peace by Chocolate film to debut at NYC's Tribeca Film Festival". CBC News Nova Scotia, May 3, 2021.
  12. ↑ "Meet the Canada Reads 2022 contenders". CBC Books, January 26, 2022.
  13. ↑ Lombard, Natalie (March 25, 2023). "U.S. President Joe Biden given Maritime-made Peace by Chocolate bar during visit to Ottawa". CTV News . Retrieved March 26, 2023.
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