History

The World’s Favourite Belgian Chocolate

Chocolate is a true passion for Guylian…

Belgian chocolate is world-renowned and is synonymous with premium quality. Guylian uses only the finest ingredients. A unique blend of West-African cocoa beans lies at the basis of high quality Belgian chocolate made with 100% cocoa butter. Only the best hazelnuts from the Mediterranean are used for our own unique roasted hazelnut praline in the world famous Guylian chocolate seashells.

Quality Ingredients & Original Recipes

We still produce our hazelnut praliné according to our own recipe in the age-old traditional manner, a heritage of the company’s founding father. How we roast and caramelise the hazelnuts is a well kept secret that gives our chocolates their velvety taste.

The story of Guylian began in 1960 with its founders: Guy and Liliane Foubert. The combination of their two names gave us the name we love today, Guylian.

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Now, many years later, Guylian seashells are still our signature chocolate. We remain faithful to the original rich praline recipe and still pay great attention to detail.

Project Seahorse

Every time you buy a box of Guylian Belgian chocolates, you contribute to saving the seahorse and the seas. Marine life is threatened around the world. Project Seahorse works on conservation solutions for seahorses and the ocean habitats in which they live. Guylian has been providing vital support for this work since 1998.

Please click here to find out more about Project Seahorse.