They founded Marou, an artisan chocolate company, three years ago in Ho Chi Minh City. The French expats, both based in Vietnam, met on a trekking adventure and shared a mutual interest in ...

In London cafes and Tokyo grocers, connoisseurs were persuaded to buy new bars from Vietnam ... the country's cacao bona fides as Marou. The chocolate maker has taken a journey befitting a ...

The pair -- co-founders of Vietnam's first artisan chocolate maker -- resurface, murmuring appreciatively. The sweet-toothed entrepreneurs -- who quit their day jobs to set up award-winning chocolate ...

The word chocolate mostly reminds us to Belgium or France. But you might want to think again as a Vietnamese chocolate has been making waves, with the renowned New York Times calling it “the best ...

of the chocolate made by Marou, a French company that was first to make single-origin, handmade chocolate from cacao grown in Vietnam, a country the produces only about 0.1 per cent of the world ...

Marou’s chocolate has a particular complexity and ... in 2011 by a Franco-Japanese named Samuel Maruta, who first came to Vietnam as a schoolteacher, and Vincent Mourou, a Franco-American ...

As the world's demand for chocolate grows, Vietnam is making a bid to become one of the world's newest high quality suppliers. Samuel Maruta and Vincent Mourou are two players in the country's small ...

The pair — co-founders of Vietnam’s first artisan chocolate maker — resurface, murmuring appreciatively. The sweet-toothed entrepreneurs — who quit their day jobs to set up award-winning chocolate ...