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Ulker joins global chocolate manufacturers that are committed to a sustainable cocoa economy. Ulker, Turkey’s biggest cocoa user, with an annual usage of 35.000 tons, has joined the platform of world’s leading chocolate manufacturers by becoming…Read More »

Mondelēz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) today unveiled “Cocoa Life” – the company’s largest, most comprehensive cocoa sustainability effort to date. As the world’s largest chocolate company, it will invest $400 million over the next ten years…Read More »

With beta-testing starting this fall in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Indonesia, the WCF’s Cocoa Measurement and Progress (CocoaMAP) initiative is the first program of its kind to track the advancements of the cocoa sector’s performance and…Read More »

Are you ready for chocolate school? Blue Bandana Chocolate Maker, the artisanal chocolate company launched this year by Eric Lampman, son of Lake Champlain Chocolates founder Jim Lampman, is offering an insight Saturday into how the…Read More »

The Hershey Company has been selected to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI). Hershey is one of seven North American companies from the Food & Beverage category in this year’s index and one of only…Read More »

Philippe Huet has been appointed as the new Managing Director Cocoa for Cargill’s cocoa & chocolate business. Huet takes over from Harold Poelma, who made a major contribution to developing the company’s innovation and sustainability programme…Read More »

Cargill has extended its sustainable cocoa programme to South Sulawesi province, Indonesia – an important step in developing sustainable cocoa production and increasing the yields of farmers in Indonesia – the world’s third largest producer of…Read More »

Cocoa production from top grower Ivory Coast’s October to March main crop will reach around 1.06 million tonnes with disease and cross-border smuggling likely to have little effect on output, Swiss chocolatier Barry Callebaut said on…Read More »

Facing the prospect of a global shortfall in cocoa production of one million tonnes by 2020, Mars Chocolate has implemented a worldwide sustainability initiative, working with the five million smallholders who grow the majority of the…Read More »

Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, announced today the building of a factory for chocolate and compounds in Eskisehir, Turkey. The new facility will serve as a basis to participate…Read More »