 Marich is a privately-owned, second-generation company that manufactures chocolates and candies that are sold worldwide through retail, foodservice, wholesale, e-commerce, and emerging channels of distribution.In 1944, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, fifteen-year-old Marinus van Dam began work as a janitor at a local confectionery factory, scraping the candy remnants off the floor.His father had been killed in a Nazi concentration camp, and as one of the eldest among eight children, his mother needed financial support for the family.