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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Cocoa Beneficial For Preventing Regular Incidence of Sickle Cell Crisis
The Technical Director of Delfi Ventures, Mrs Ida Dela Kuekey Austine, has advised persons living with sickle cell anaemia to make the consumption of unsweetened cocoa and dark chocolates a daily routine.
Mrs Austine, who has lived with…
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Eko Chocolate Show 2021 Opens Via Zoom On Saturday March 27
A virtual edition of Nigeria's flagship Eko Chocolate Show is set to kick off Saturday 27th March to Sunday 28th March 2021 via online video conferencing platform Zoom.
The African cocoa and chocolate forum assembles chocolatiers,…
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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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Cocoa Farmers Get Only $1 As Daily Revenue From Their Production – Research
Research conducted by the Stanbic Bank Research Team has revealed that out of Ghana’s estimated production of 812,000 tons of cocoa beans, only 30 percent is processed locally although the country’s installed capacity for processing the…
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Cocoa Farm Irrigation: Mondelez Leads Private Sector Response To Declining Cocoa Production
"Old and unproductive", that is how Francis Oko Lanquaye described his 4 and half-acre cocoa farm when he acquired it some years back.
It is located at Otwebediedua, near Suhum in the Eastern Region, about 65 kilometres northwest of…
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Why Ghana Will No Longer Sell Cocoa To Switzerland
A year ago, Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo became the first African leader to be invited in about 60 years on a state visit to Switzerland.
But his visit may not have gone as his host would wish as he announced that his…
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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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