However, we can source the exact inventor of the heart-shaped chocolate box to one Richard Cadbury, a Victorian chocolatier who introduced the product along with a new form of "eating chocolates ...

Richard Cadbury did not see his true genius when he began marketing chocolates for Valentine's Day. He failed to patent the iconic heart-shaped boxes he adorned, decorated, and designed under the ...

We have chocolate-maker Richard Cadbury to thank for the Valentine's Day connection, as he decided to start selling chocolates in heart-shaped boxes in 1868. Since then we are smitten with the ...

The heart-shaped boxes of chocolates that dominate Valentine’s Day shelves today trace their origins to a strategic marketing campaign from the 1860s. British chocolatier Richard Cadbury is ...