Venco Schoolkrijt / blackboard chalk 255g

Venco Schoolkrijt / blackboard chalk

If you were a licorice producer, would you ever name one of your best sweets blackboard chalk? Never mind, in the Netherlands everyone knows Venco schoolkrijt (blackboard chalk). In fact the mint coated white sticks look exactly like blackboard chalk. The inside consists of highest quality anise. The taste of Venco blackboard chalk or schoolkrijt is so outstanding that as a licorice conaisseur you simply must have tried them. Venco blackboard chalk is such an original sweet that the Ducth public soon became fond of it. Anise is soft and sweet, bur it is far more healthy than sugar which is only good for you when consumed moderately. It's because of original fine product like Venco blackboard chalk that the factory internationally became acknowledged during the last decades. Even in England, the world's leading licorice producing country, Venco has established its reputation. Founded in 1890 in Amsterdam by Gerrit van Voornveld the factory soon captured a central position in the market. During the 1890s an influenza epidemic caused a tremendous increase of the demand for cough surpressing licorice. Van Voornveld's licorice recipe proved to be the perfect remedy against an aching throat and lyrax. At the beginning of the new century, the licorice factory was taken over and the new owners renamed it in Venco (Voornveld and Companions). The new name was a tribute to the founder of the company. After 1945 in the wake of the fusion between Venco and Red Band the factory moved to Roosendaal. Today Venco is a leading licorice brand in the Netherlands which becomes increasingly popular abroad.

Producer: Venco Cloetta Holland BV
Addressinformation: PO Box 72
Zip Code 4900 AB Oosterhout
Country: the Netherlands