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Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory

Brand

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Company overview

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is a retail franchisor and manufacturer of premium confections.The Company is based in the charming old-west town of Durango located on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, in southwestern Colorado. From its 53,000 square foot plant, the Company offers a franchise business opportunity in premium retail selling handcrafted caramel apples and classic confections and chocolates. It manufactures an extensive line of premium chocolate candies and other confectionery products to supply its many franchise locations, delivered fresh by its fleet of refrigerated trucks.The chocolate factory produces approximately 300 chocolate candies and other confectionery products, using proprietary recipes developed primarily by its master candy maker. These products include many varieties of clusters, caramels, creams, meltaways, truffles and molded chocolates. Individual stores prepare a variety of caramel and candy apples, fudge, chocolate items and confections in full view of the customer using traditional cooking utensils such as copper kettles on gas-fired stoves and marble slab cooling tables.
Founded in 1981
Durango, Colorado, USA
637 employees
66% recommend to a friend
69% positive business outlook

Salaries

Typical salary range

$70,000 – $80,000

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Headcount trend

Company growth over the last 12 months

Headcount +3.4% year over year

Funding

Total funding

$10.9M

Last raise

$2.7M

Post IPO Equity, 3 months ago

Funding history

Dec 2025

Post IPO Equity Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory · $2.7M

Oct 2024

Post IPO Debt Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory · $6M

Aug 2024

Post IPO Equity Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory · $2.2M

Audience

Monthly website visitors
62.3K
Month over month+11.7%
Quarter over quarter+35.8%
Top sourceSearch (56.8%)
Ad budget per month$0.0
Average search rank54.5
Traffic source mix
Search
56.8%
Direct
33.7%
Referral
7.2%
Social
1.1%
Paid referral
1.1%

LinkedIn followers

Follower count and growth

Total followers

3.1K

12-mo growth

+21.7%

Monthly growth

+1.5%

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