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Ghana’s Farmers Eye Sweet Success From Chocolate
There is a lot of money in chocolate but the producers of the raw material see very little of it.
Last year the retail industry was worth $107bn (£78bn), according to one projection, but Ghana - the world's second-largest cocoa…
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United Kingdom: Easter Egg Sales ‘Soar By Almost 50%’
Consumers have been splashing out ahead of Easter as people prepare for weekend celebrations amid eased lockdown restrictions, research suggests.
Easter egg sales have climbed £48m, soaring almost 50% to £153m compared with last…
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India – Future Eldorado For The Global Cocoa Industry
As cocoa consumption slows in developed countries, companies in the chocolate value chain are looking for other sources of growth.
In the list of potential new outlets, India occupies a major place. Analysts say the world's largest…
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7 World Class Chocolate Brands Proudly Made In Ghana
Ghana is known globally for her gold, the Black Star and cocoa, which the legendary Tetteh Quarshie brought from the island of Fernando Po (now Bioko, Equatorial Guinea) in 1878.
Although not native to the country, Ghana has for over a…
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Nestle Recycles Cocoa Fruit Waste To Replace Sugar In Chocolate
As confectionery groups scramble to reduce added sugar, chocolate sweetened with cocoa fruit pulp is about to hit supermarket shelves with food giant Nestle ready to launch its "Incoa" bar.
Using cocoa fruit pulp, which is normally…
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Mondelēz To Reduce Virgin Plastic Use To Combat Plastic Pollution
* Company builds on existing 2025 goals with new aim to cut virgin plastic use in rigid plastic packaging by at least 25%
* Part of broader efforts to eliminate, reduce, replace and recycle plastics across portfolio
* Calls for more…
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Fairafric Flays Big Chocolate On Refusal To Pay $400 LID To Tackle Cocoa Farmer Poverty
Organic chocolate social enterprise, fairafric, has taken a swipe at giant chocolate makers for their alleged refusal to buy Africa's cocoa beans in an apparent move to skirt a $400 per ton premium termed the Living Income Differential…
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Meet The Maker: Côte d’Ivoire’s Trailblazing Chocolatier
Under the shade of an awning, Rosine Bekoin leans over a fire, stirring a pan of roasting cacao beans — the main raw ingredient of chocolate.
A rich, fruity scent rises into the air. Around her, 10 other women sing as they pound roasted…
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Ritter Sport Is Told Its New No-sugar Bar Is Not Chocolate
The German chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport is embroiled in a row with food law regulators after being told it cannot call its latest creation a chocolate bar because it contains no sugar, The Guardian has reported.
RitterSport, which…
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Lowa Chocolate Makes DR Congo The New Kid On The World Chocolate Block
Aisha Kalinda melts the chunks of cocoa in a pan and spoons the brown gloop into a mould which will become the latest bar produced at the Lowa chocolate factory, the first locally owned producer in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
For…
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