Chocolate

Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world's biggest exporters of cocoa, have agreed a deal to sell the commodity with an additional living income premium of $400 (£320) a tonne added to the price. The scheme aims to work with the world's chocolate…
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Switzerland based Nestlé has officially inaugurated Institute of Packaging Sciences, the first-of-its-kind in the food industry. The new research institute enables Nestlé to accelerate its efforts to bring functional, safe and…
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One of the world’s largest food and drink companies, Nestlé, has committed to accelerating its climate change efforts to achieve zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. “Climate change is one of the biggest threats we face as a society.…
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A national competition from Cadbury to invent a new flavoured chocolate product has named Callum Clogher as its winner, after creating a Choca-Latte Dairy Milk bar. The 17-year-old Irish’s creation will now join the existing range of…
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The Ghana COCOBOD on Friday, September 13, signed its annual cocoa loan syndication deal in Paris, France with some 20 banks including Societe General, Nedbank, MUFG, and NET-IXIS. This comes after Parliament’s approval for COCOBOD to…
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Higher prices are needed to ensure cocoa production becomes more sustainable, a senior European Union official said on Tuesday, backing plans by top growers Ivory Coast and Ghana to levy a “living income differential” on sales. “Ivory…
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Ivory Coast and Ghana will meet major chocolate makers and grinders in Abidjan on Wednesday to make plans to regulate the industry’s efforts to source cocoa sustainably, multiple trade and government sources told Reuters. The plan comes…
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Ghana's President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has commissioned the OmniFert Fertilizer Factory, a wholly-owned Ghanaian fertilizer manufacturing company. At the commissioning ceremony on Friday, 6th September, 2019, President Akufo-Addo applauded…
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