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Location of Belgium. Belgium is a sovereign state in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and the North Sea. It is a small, densely populated country which covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres (11,787 sq mi) and has a population of about 11 million people.
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Cara, a brand of Colruyt, illustrated here by a can of Pils on a mural of the railway station of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).. Colruyt Group is a Belgian family-owned retail corporation that is managing the Colruyt supermarkets and other subsidiaries such as OKay, Bio-Planet, DATS 24, DreamLand, DreamBaby, and more.
Neuhaus is a Belgian chocolatier which manufactures and sells luxury chocolates, chocolate truffles, biscuits and ice cream. The company was founded in 1857 by Jean Neuhaus, a Swiss immigrant, who opened the first store in the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in central Brussels .
Brands of Belgian chocolate and pralines, like Côte d'Or, Neuhaus, Leonidas and Godiva are famous, as well as independent producers such as Burie and Del Rey in Antwerp and Mary's in Brussels. [221] Belgium produces over 1100 varieties of beer. [222] [223] The Trappist beer of the Abbey of Westvleteren has repeatedly been rated the world's ...
Callebaut was Belgium's first chocolate brand to partner directly with cocoa farmers and cooperatives to grow cocoa beans sustainably through its Growing Great Chocolate program. [ citation needed ] Callebaut is the first chocolate manufacturer in the world and the first food manufacturer in Belgium to obtain the ISO-9002 certificate for its ...
The product ranges from chocolate bars, chocolate tablets over sea shells to pralines (chocolate shells with soft fillings).. In December 2011, after the European Parliament approved the use of sweeteners from Stevia (Steviol glycosides), a herb originating from the Rainforest in the borderlands of Paraguay and Brazil; Cavalier was the first Authentic Belgian Chocolatier to come onto the EU ...