Chocolate Companies

GoodSam Foods, a healthy snack brand based in Connecticut, has teamed up with Colombian chocolate makers Luker Chocolate to launch their latest initiative, Building Networks. The initiative aims to improve educational programmes in Colombian Cocoa communities, bringing together and providing educational resources for youths while teaching them to use “social media for good”. In GoodSam’s […]

Chocolate and Cocoa product manufacturer Barry Callebaut announced on 9 June that it is expanding further into Latin America through a new long-term agreement with Levapan, a food ingredient supplier in Colombia. The said company has wide distribution networks in Colombia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and other countries. This strategic supply agreement enables both companies

Swiss company PRONATEC opens its organic Cocoa processing plant in Beringen, Switzerland, to produce semi-finished Cocoa products, namely Cocoa mass, Cocoa butter and Cocoa powder. Around 15,000 tonnes of organic Cocoa beans sourced from smallholder cooperatives will be processed by PRONATEC Swiss Cocoa Production per year. Having its own Cocoa processing plant enables PRONATEC to

The Barry Callebaut Group announced the opening of their new global CHOCOLATE ACADEMY™ training centre, located in Casablanca, Morocco. With the opening of this academy, the company now has 26 such facilities globally, 2 of which are located on the African continent.  The purpose of the academies, according to the company, is to facilitate collaboration

Chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut recently announced what they refer to as a “Farm of the Future” located in the Cerecita Valley in Ecuador, the world’s third-largest producer of Cocoa. The company issued information about the facility in a press release, highlighting the areas of research they are conducting, some of which will benefit the company

Earlier this year, Blommers Chocolate Company joined forces with Israeli food tech company DouxMatok to work on bringing reduced-sugar solutions to the chocolate and confectionery industry. Blommers went on to release their Discovery line of products, driven by DouxMatok’s flagship product, Incredo Sugar. The sugar-based sweetener alternative was first trialled in the form of chocolate

Peter Boone, the CEO of Barry Callebaut, says it doesn’t ‘feel right’ to exit the Russian market. He is wrong, and the result will be to give more ammunition to their critics and add them to a widely published list, shaming companies that are failing the moral imperative. The Yale School of Management maintains a

AVPA already has a recognized place in international competitions for exceptional products with its first competitions (coffees roasted at origin, teas of the world and vegetable oils for which AVPA has been conducting an international competition for 20 years that has become a reference in the profession). This esteem is reinforced by the success of

Channel 4 ran a short documentary in which they exposed children working unhappily in Ghana, at locations identified by Mondelēz Internally as part of their sustainable Cocoa Life programme. It’s normal for children who help out their families when not at school, and as long as they’re not engaged in a hazardous activity, such as

Hershey’s won an important vote against unionizing at their second largest manufacturing plant, against a backdrop of a revitalised union movement in the U.S. The vote count was live streamed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who were no doubt disappointed by the outcome. Certainly some workers were not happy with the way the