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RESOLUTION N0. 66-68
COMMENDING GUITTARD CHOCOLATE COMPANY ON THE
CENTENNIAL OF ITS FOUNDING
WHEREAS, ETIENNE GUITTARD, a gold seeker in the days of
California's celebrated rush for gold, remained in California to
establish the GUITTARD CHOCOLATE COMPANY in San Francisco in the
year 1868; and
WHEREAS, said GUITTARD CHOCOLATE COMPANY has since the
date of its founding remained continuously in business as a manu-
facturer and purveyor of chocolate of the highest quality andhas
now expanded its operations and distribution to include the eleven
(11) Western states of the United States of America and has made
the GUITTARD name synonymous with chocolate products of the very
highest quality; and
W'HEPEAS, GUITTARD CHOCOLATE COMPANY, in 1955, removed its
main plant and Ueneral offices from San Francisco to the City of
Burlingame as a pioneer establishment in the City of Burlingame's
then newly created light industrial area; and
WHEREAS, the street upon which the main plant and gen-
deal offices have been erected is named Wittard Road in honor of
the founder of the GUITTARD CHOCOLATE COMPANY, ETIENNE GUITTARD.
NOW. THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUN-
CIL OF TN'3 CITY OF BURLINGAIT that the GUITTARD CHOCOLATE COMPANY
be commended and congratulated upon the centennial of its founding
and upon the pre-eminence of its product within its marketing area
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of theCity
of Burlingame extends to the GUITTARD CHOCOLATE COMPANY every wish
for its continued success and recognition as a distributor of high
quality food products during this, the second century of its
existence.
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I, HERBERT K. WHITE, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame
hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was introduced at a
regular meeting of the City Council held on the 16th day of
vote:
r , 196B, and adopted thereafter by the follow -
AYES: Councilmen Crosby-Diederichsen-George-Johnson-
Martin.
NOES: Councilmen: None.
Absent Councilmen: None.
City Clerk
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