Gertrude Jones Hawk

Gertrude Jones Hawk (1903–1987) was an American candy maker and entrepreneur who created the Gertrude Hawk Chocolates company based upon her experience making chocolate from her home in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Gertrude Hawk was central to the company's financial success due to her development of fundraising networks in which local civic institutions could resell chocolates to support their own programs.

Her multi-million dollar chocolate company operates over 60 Gertrude Hawk Chocolates Chocolate Shops throughout the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. The company produces their own brand of chocolates along with other company's brands, including Frango's, a mint truffle popularized by the department store Marshall Field's. It also supplies chocolate and confections to other food manufacturers such as Ben and Jerry’s, Turkey Hill Dairy, The Hershey Company, Nestle and Fanny May.