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The past year and a half has seen price hikes in cocoa that, while stabilising, show no signs of dropping back to the pre-2024 "normal".

In 2024 and 2025, cocoa bean prices have soared to historic levels. If chocolate is central to your product lineup, you’re ...

Traceability from farm to first purchase, common definitions of protected areas and paying farmers a living income are three ways stakeholders say can help end cocoa-driven deforestation in West ...

Long-awaited US government-funded report from National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (NORC) that assesses progress in reducing child labour in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana’s cocoa ...

Cocoa prices hit a 60-year high in 2025, forcing chocolate manufacturers like Barry Callebaut, Mondelēz and Hershey to cut production and revise earnings forecasts. Discover how soaring costs and ...

Global confectionery launches are on the up, growing 2% over the five years to September 2023, according to researcher Innova Market Insights. And Europe is the leading market with 40% of product ...

The chocolate industry must ramp up support for good agricultural practices on existing cocoa farmland or else rainforest will be chopped down to make way for new plantations and it may face supply ...

Amid supply chain concerns, crippling cocoa costs and volatility within the wider geopolitical environment, cautious confectionery brands are turning to packaging to hone in on innovations.