Welcome to Thorntons Plc, the largest independent chocolate and confectionery company in the United Kingdom

Did you know Thorntons has been making delicious chocolates for over a hundred years? In fact, our very first shop was opened in Sheffield by travelling confectioner Joseph William Thornton in October 1911, who handed the keys to his teenage sons Norman and Stanley and said:

“Make this the best sweet shop in town!”

Well, they didn’t do a bad job, did they?