Chocolate for success

Our company history

Walter Müller senior
  • 1957

    Walter Müller senior, former trade representative for Zentis and buyer for REWE Pirmasens, becomes self-employed.
    He opens a confectioner's in Zweibrücken which is followed by six more branches in the Palatinate.

YearIncidentsVolume of sales
1959Start of production of Easter bunnies0.25 million €
1964Purchase of an automatic plant for hollow figures0.5 million €
1967Sale of the confectioner's
1970Expansion of the production plant for hollow figures to 1,600 sq m in Pirmasens1 million €
1982Start of production of puffed-rice chocolate
1983Dr Walter Müller & engineering graduate Jürgen Müller take over the company management2 million €
1988Construction of a new production hall with administration building in Münchweiler 7 million €
1992Construction of a new production hall and purchase of a fully automated plant to manufacture hollow figures17 million €
1994Start of production in WAWI-Xiamen, China24 million €
1996Takeover of the company Fuchs & Hoffmann, Bexbach (Saar).
Start of production of WAWI-Chocolate Inc., Laval (Montreal), Canada
46 million €
1998New factories in Australia and Russia55 million €
2002WAWI-China purchases a new factory building65 million €
2004Opening of the 'Glass Factory' in Pirmasens
2006New cocoa-roasting plant at Fuchs & Hoffmann and expansion of the capacities there to 40,000 tons80 million €
2007Distribution of Nappo and Moritz ice cream confectionery
WAWI's 50-year anniversary
2009In 2009 the Factory Outlet with museum in Kempen, the WAWI Schoko-Factory in Saarbrücken as well as a new modern production plant in Rumania have been opened.130 Mio €