This presentation is about the Chocolate factory in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia. It is an essay that belongs to the Comenius project

1. BY: ANNA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ

2. CONTENST
 Simon Coll factory
 Products
 Shop
 Interview
 My experience

3. SIMÓN COLL FACTORY
Simón coll is a well known chocolate
factory, situated in Sant Sadurní d’Anoia.
The factory
Began when the chocolate maker was
born in this village situated 40 kilometres
far from Barcelona. Sant Sadurní is
known in the world as the sparkling wine
“Cava” capital. Miquel Coll was the
successor and extended the selling activity
of all the products in Catalonia in the
middle of the year 1950. He also built a
new factory from where you can smell
chocolate in the town centre.

4. From the 70s onwards, a great number of
small local makers disappeared. Luckily,
this was not the case for Simón Coll.
Xavier Coll, Miquel’s son, decided to
develop a great range of chocolate
products for Christmas and Easter,
something that helped the factory make
their brand stronger. Simón Coll began to
be sold in the most important cake and
sweet shops around the world. Some time
later, the factory made chocolate and
“turrons” (a typical kind of pastry for
Christmas time) with excellent nuts from
our country.

5.  All these areas of specialization helped the
expansion of the products throughout Spain, and
later, the factory exported their products to more
than 20 countries around the world. Simón Coll
opened a chocolate shop next to the factory.
People can find all the products in the shop.

6. STORAGE
Chocolates Simón Coll uses climate-controlled
facilities to make sure that its
products are stored in the right
conditions: 12 to 20º C and with less than
70% humidity. The finished product is
stored in a robotic warehouse with a
capacity of 4,000 pallets and an
automated picking area. This is where we
prepare orders and finally send them off.

7. AN OLD SIMÓN COLL
DELIVERY VAN, FROM ABOUT
1960

8. THIS ANCIENT WRAPPER FROM
1880 HAS STAYED ON THE
MARKET UNTIL THE PRESENT
DAY, WITHOUT INTERRUPTION

9. PRODUCTS
Easter Egg St.Valentine’s day

10. SHOP
Sant Pere, 37
08770 Sant Sadurní d’Anoia
Barcelona (Spain)
T. +34 93 891 11 00
www.simoncoll.com
Monday to Friday, from 9am to 2pm,
4pm to 7pm
Satuday to Sunday, from 9am to 3pm.

11. Interview
 Which differences are for 50 years ago to
actually?
50 years ago making processes were manual and
mechanical chocolate, and today are mechanical
and robotic.
 How many people worked here for 50 years?
For 50 years here worked between 15-20 people.
 How many people work here now?
Actually are more than 100 people working in the
Simón Coll factory

12. Interview
 There is any change to do the chocolate?
There are more machines than before?
The machines have adapted in consumer tastes.
The chocolate undo has gone to produce with
more refined products, for example, cocoa from
different backgrounds.
 Sell they products of arround the world?
How?
They export products in more than 20 countries,
mainly in the northern Hemisphere and in
developed countries. From direct customers and
distributors.

13. Interview
 Why is this factory created?
The present factory is the result of changing the
traditional production of chocolate
manufacturing industry, over 6 generations of
chocolatiers.
 Before there was any difference between
men and women?
Not never there are sex discrimination with
respect to wages or job sharing. Proof of this is
that there are many women working in the
factory at all levels.

14. Interview
 Is the only factory there are? And stores?
At St. Sadurní is the only factory. In Catalonia
and the rest of the world there are many. There
are two shops Simón Coll.
 How do they know? (advertising)
One of the major is the participation on fairs, as
well as appearances in professional journals and
sales networks.
 They've always used the same recipe?
No, recipes are constantly evolving. There are
recipes basic features of the company that do not
vary, but the others were adapted to the tastes of
customers.

15. FIRST DAY: MONDAY
 We went to visit the cavas of our town, because it
is the most famous characteristic of out town.

16. MY EXPERIENCE
Marissa Kristina Kanto Cavalloti came to my
house, she came from finland, came to my house,
in the stayed of comenius in Spain. It was a new
experience for me and for her, and we had a very
good relation and we passed a very good
moments.

17. SECOND DAY: THUESDAY
 We went to visit a museum of wines in Vilafranca
del Penedés, called Vinseum. It was very
interesting.

18. THIRD DAY: WEDNESDAY
 On the third day we stayed at school doing
normal classes, but the comenius people were
doing a special activities.

19. FOURTH DAY: THURSDAY
 We went to Barcelona to visit the Sagrada
Familia and the park Guell, it was very
interesting for all the people and we had good
moments

20. FIFTH DAY: FRIDAY
 We stayed at school doing the English day with
all the people of the school. The english day is
special day for the school, because all the people
have to speak English and do a different types of
activities.