Butlers Chocolates

About the company

Founded in 1932, Butlers Chocolates is Ireland's premier family-owned firm dedicated to the craft of exceptional chocolate-making. Every day, a team of devoted chocolatiers creates unforgettable experiences for you to discover and savour.
Butlers offer a complete range of premium chocolates for self-treat and impulse, in addition to beautiful gift boxes at an array of price points, alongside strong seasonal collections - chosen to appeal to discerning chocolate shoppers. Butlers exceptional range of luxurious chocolates, bars and hot chocolates are produced at a state-of-the-art BRC AA factory in Dublin, using only sustainably sourced cocoa and no palm oil.
Butlers is also known and loved throughout Ireland and beyond for its eponymous retail concept Butlers Chocolate Café - an innovative experience, personifying the Butlers brand. There are over 50 Butlers Chocolate Cafés in Ireland and beyond.

Key Sustainability Commitments

Within the packaging target area, Butlers has committed to taking a proactive
approach to packaging through the implementation of a number of initiatives. The
company has reached the set target across Butlers Chocolate Cafés to make 80% of its
takeaway cups recyclable by the year 2022. As of 2020, 100% of Butlers Chocolates
takeaway cups were certified recyclable, compared to a target of 40% for the year,
demonstrating exemplary performance in this area. The company also completed
another 2022 packaging target in 2020, to source 50% of the board used in printing
boxes in-house from FSC/PEFC sources. Butlers achieved 100% of all the printed
board from FSC sources, again exceeding their 2020 target. Overall, Butlers continues
to perform strongly with exemplary performance demonstrated across six different
targets and has now achieved Origin Green gold membership for two consecutive
years.