Callebaut’s nearly 30-year-old namesake chocolate business went into receivership in August, as ATB Financial was reportedly owed nearly $4 million. Last week, the receiver, Deloitte & Touche, recommended the assets be sold to a company backed by Callebaut’s former VP of Operations, Brian Beck and a dealer of three stores in Edmonton.
The good news is Beck is promising that many of the employees who lost their jobs will get them back and Callebaut is already talking about his return to the chocolate business. “We [are] going to get out of the ashes and we [are] going to start again. A plan is in the making,” Callebaut was quoted as saying by the Calgary Herald. “My name is Bernard Callebaut. I’sm an individual that makes chocolates, and I’sm going to keep on doing it.”
