It was 1879 when Rodolphe Lindt, son of a Bernese pharmacist, wanted to make chocolate. At that time chocolate was still hard, hard to eat and hard to process. Lindt was the first to succeed in producing shiny, tenderly melting chocolate. A real pleasure for the senses, a real pleasure. The foundation stone was laid and twenty years later, together with Rudolf Sprüngli, the founder of the first chocolate manufactory in German-speaking Switzerland in 1845, he founded Lindt & Sprüngli AG, which is well-known today. The most traditional Lindt product saw the light of day in 1952, the famous golden hare with the bow and its little bell.