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A bean-to-bar company produces chocolate by processing cocoa beans into a product in-house, rather than melting chocolate from another manufacturer. Some are large companies that own the entire process for economic reasons; others are small- or micro-batch producers and aim to control the whole process to improve quality, working conditions, or environmental impact.
According to the UN FAO, Indonesia overtook Ghana and became the second-largest producer worldwide in 2006. [4] The World Cocoa Foundation provides significantly lower figures for Indonesia, but concurs that it is the largest producer of cocoa beans outside of West Africa. [9] Large chocolate producers such as Cadbury, Hershey's, and Nestle buy ...
Barry Callebaut AG is a Swiss-Belgian cocoa processor and chocolate manufacturer, [5] with an average annual production of 2.3 million tonnes of cocoa & chocolate (fiscal year 2021/2022). [6] It was created in 1996 through the merging of the French company Cacao Barry and the Belgian chocolate producer Callebaut .
Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana are the world's largest and second largest cocoa producers, respectively, together accounting for 65% of the global cocoa supply as of 2024. [1] In 2017, a 20% drop in global cocoa prices negatively impacted the livelihoods of millions of cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, prompting the presidents of both countries to sign an agreement for a strategic ...
The poor prices and yield are forcing many of them to drop cocoa production altogether, Oxfam said. ... The family business, founded in 1911, is now the world’s biggest chocolate company, making ...
According to advocates of fair trade, such as Ghanaian cooperative Kuapa Kokoo, [1] [2] "Big Chocolate" companies include Mondelez (which owns Cadbury), Mars, Nestlé, and The Hershey Company. Together these companies process about 12% [citation needed] of the world's 3 million tons [3] of cocoa each year.
In September 2017, an investigation conducted by NGO Mighty Earth [19] found that a large amount of the cocoa used in chocolate produced by Lindt and other major chocolate companies was grown illegally in national parks and other protected areas in the Ivory Coast and Ghana, [20] [21] the world's two largest cocoa producers.
Many major chocolate production companies around the world have started to prioritize buying fair trade cocoa by investing in fair trade cocoa production, improving fair trade cocoa supply chains and setting purchasing goals to increase the proportion of fair trade chocolate available in the global market.