A technique called conching is one of the main reasons for the long success of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, celebrating its 160th anniversary this year.The process — which removes bitterness and strips astringency from roasted cocoa beans — results in… Read More
After months of speculation, American chocolate maker Hershey will acquire the balance 49 per cent stake held largely by Godrej Industries (43 per cent) and a minority shareholder ( six per cent) in the joint venture company Godrej Hershey Ltd. Read More
The Hershey Company recently issued its second Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report – “Listen. Learn. Act.” – outlining how the company has taken action to address the topics and issues in the Marketplace of greatest concern to many of our… Read More
Le Docteur KOKO Louis est une fierté pour la Côte d’Ivoire tout entière ! En effet ce jeune chercheur issu du Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA) est le premier Ivoirien à bénéficier du célèbre programme de bourses sur l’initiative mondiale… Read More
Le cacao ivoirien pèse à lui seul 1,3 million de tonnes dans le monde, soit un peu plus de 40% de la production. Malheureusement, avec d’une part, la maladie telle que le Shollen Shoot (la pourriture brune de la cabosse),… Read More
Un chercheur ivoirien a décidé d’apporter son expertise et son expérience pour lutter contre le vieillissement des vergers de cacao en répondant au défi de la replantation de cette culture dont la Côte d’Ivoire est le premier producteur mondial. Read More
Troubled chocolate retailer Darrell Lea will remain Australian owned, but hundreds of jobs will still be lost as the Quinn family takes control. Darrell Lea on Monday was sold to the Quinn family, which owns the Queensland-based VIP Petfoods.The family… Read More
Making the cocoa business sustainable means more than just coming up with the right farming techniques; it also means teaching those techniques to farmers and suppliers up and down the supply chain. Agricultural innovations are useless if businesses don’t know… Read More
OLAM Ghana Limited, a leading licensed cocoa buying company (LBC), is undertaking a cocoa sustainability project in 52 communities across five cocoa regions in the country. The regions are Ashanti, BrongAhafo, Eastern, Western and Central. Under the project, farmers would… Read More
Purdy’s Chocolates is a Canadian owned and family operated business that is the second largest chocolate retailer in Canada, with 59 stores in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. While many people would consider those impressive statistics, Dwayne Howard had less… Read More