Great post. I’m dying to know what company you have/work for? Theo by any chance? AFAIK bean to bar is highly unusual, done by only a dozen or so companies. You appear to be living the dream!
I was told a few years ago that bean-to-bar was done by very few companies. But I've since heard that it's had kind of an explosion that somewhat parallels the popularity of beer microbreweries, with a huge boom in sales of chocolate-making equipment.
Based on the turnout at the Northwest Chocolate Festival last month, I can confirm it has exploded :-)