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Compartés reports that the U.S. chocolate industry is in turmoil with new tariffs to disrupt supply chains and increase costs ...
Dr. Ransford Anertey Abbey, has indicated that despite the myriad of challenges bedeviling the cocoa sector, COCOBOD remains ...
According to International Cocoa Organisation forecasts, Ghana’s output this season will be more than 40% below its peak four ...
Cocoa volatility was driven by disease and climate change in 2024, as trade tensions and tariffs complicate the commodity’s ...
Nestle’s sales rose as the maker of Nespresso and KitKat candy bars increased prices to counter soaring costs for coffee and ...
A dramatic spike in the price of cocoa that roiled commodity traders and candy makers is showing signs of easing, and the top ...
High temperatures, ageing trees and disease have lowered cocoa supplies and raised prices. Cocoa prices surged almost 300 ...
Lindt’s Lechner said “the magnitude of these increases in raw material forced us, also, in the last years, to pass on a ...
The figures show chocolate price inflation is increasing, rising from 9.8 per cent last Easter compared to Easter 2023 to ...
Confectionery manufacturers saw some relief in sugar prices in 2024, but little relief is expected for cocoa prices in 2025, according to FCC.
Chocolate makers have slashed their use of hedges against price rises due to the soaring cost of futures contracts, in a bet that the huge bull market in cocoa is finally over.