Kāpiti Chocolate Factory celebrates 30 years
November 3, 2022
Opening in Kāpiti in 1992 and quickly becoming one of the country’s biggest chocolate distributors, the Kāpiti Chocolate Factory started after Featherston woman Lenore Nysse’s husband bought home a box of decadent chocolates from a Europe trip.
Inspired by what she was eating, Lenore started experimenting, making her own chocolates and testing them out on her friends and family before selling them at markets.
Originally named Nyco Chocolates, the business started in the 1980s and moved to Kāpiti in 1992, growing to the point where it produced chocolate for the likes of Deka and Farmers.