Chocolate and Confectionery Manufacturing

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing chocolate and chocolate confectioneries from cacao beans or (2) manufacturing chocolate confectioneries from chocolate produced elsewhere. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Manufacturing schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.

Baseline: Manufacturing v2
Inherited from: Manufacturing
Mapped on the schema: 0 of 0 placed here
Primitives: 57 in 8 parts
Last updated: Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 31135

Establishments: 1,253
Employees: 42,020
Annual payroll: $2.3B
Payroll per employee: $54.2K

Establishments by number of employees

1-4401
5-9273
10-19265
1000+4
20-49178
50-9955
100-24943
250-49926
500-9998

Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (national file), employees as of mid-March 2023, payroll for the year; published 2025-06-26. Coded on NAICS 2017. Withheld cells read as not published.

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Below itChocolate and Confectionery Manufacturing from Cacao Beans Confectionery Manufacturing from Purchased Chocolate

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57 primitives

Primitive	Part	Layer	Description	Parameters	Organizations
Plant safety and environment hse	Control: rules the company runs under	Decisions	Machine guarding, chemicals, emissions and waste.	1	—
Quality management system quality_systems	Control: rules the company runs under	Decisions	The documented system that controls processes, records nonconformances and drives corrective action.	3	—
Lot traceability traceability	Control: rules the company runs under	Data	Knowing which material lots went into which finished units and where they were shipped.	2	—
Strategy and goals strategy	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	What the company is trying to become.	0	—
Governance and decision rights governance	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Who decides what, up to which limit.	0	—
Management cadence cadence	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	The meetings and reviews that run the company.	0	—
Learning and improvement improvement	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	How feedback changes the way work is done.	0	—

Organizations: how many of the 0 organizations mapped in public on Chocolate and Confectionery Manufacturing and below have a sourced part on the primitive. Primitives are matched by key, so organizations on earlier versions count.

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57 primitives

Primitive	Part	Layer	Description	Parameters	Organizations
Plant safety and environment hse	Control: rules the company runs under	Decisions	Machine guarding, chemicals, emissions and waste.	1	—
Quality management system quality_systems	Control: rules the company runs under	Decisions	The documented system that controls processes, records nonconformances and drives corrective action.	3	—
Lot traceability traceability	Control: rules the company runs under	Data	Knowing which material lots went into which finished units and where they were shipped.	2	—
Strategy and goals strategy	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	What the company is trying to become.	0	—
Governance and decision rights governance	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Who decides what, up to which limit.	0	—
Management cadence cadence	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	The meetings and reviews that run the company.	0	—
Learning and improvement improvement	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	How feedback changes the way work is done.	0	—