André’s Confiserie Suisse, a family-run chocolatier for 70 years, helped redefine accessible luxury in the Midwest. While the Overland Park location is set to close at the end of the year, the brand has no plans to slow production.

Nearly 5,000 miles from Switzerland, a small group toured the inner sanctum of an iconic 70-year-old Kansas City company — a family-run brand that helped redefine accessible luxury in the Midwest, one Swiss chocolate-covered almond at a time.

“What people get excited about André’s is the legacy, that we take a lot of pride in our heritage, in the way we produce things and in our packaging,” said René Bollier, president and executive chef, and the third-generation to helm André’s Confiserie Suisse . “It yells out that we are a Swiss brand in the United States

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