All news articles for December 2020

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2020 - a year like no other

ICYMI: Here’s our top 10 most popular confectionery stories of 2020

By Anthony Myers

From the WCF and Tony’s Chocolonely hosting fantastic events online, Barry Callebaut launching ground-breaking 3D-printing and the NCA’s John Downs steadying the ship in Florida as the coronavirus begins to swirl around the confectionery industry, we...

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Brexit

Brexit transition: time is running out

By Anthony Myers

There are new rules for businesses and citizens from 1 January 2021 – and companies in the food sector have been urged to act now to be ready if new trading rules between the UK and EU come into force at the beginning of 2021.

Ferrero is set to acquire Eat Natural. Pic: Ferrero Group

Acquisitions

Ferrero Group to acquire healthy snack company Eat Natural

By Anthony Myers

Global confectionery brand, the Ferrero Group has announced it is buying UK healthy snack company Eat Natural the maker of high-quality cereal bars, toasted muesli and granola, for an undisclosed sum.

Daniel Aboagye, a cocoa farmer in Ghana's Western Region. Pic: Kristy Leissle

I am a cocoa farmer: Daniel Aboagye, Western Region, Ghana

'Cocoa pays for everything'

By Kristy Leissle

In the third of her occasional 'I am a cocoa farmer series', cocoa scholar Kristy Leissle talks to Daniel Aboagye, who is not only a farmer but a recorder, or purchasing clerk, for the Kuapa Kokoo licensed cocoa buying company (LBC), so he has...

Study: Consumers see craft chocolate as ‘novel and exciting’

Study: Consumers see craft chocolate as ‘novel and exciting’

By Mary Ellen Shoup

Premium packaging and label design, unique brand backstories, and products that evoke novelty and excitement are highly-sought-after product attributes for craft chocolate consumers, according to research conducted by food scientists in Penn State’s College...

Sales of cocoa beans have fallen in Cote d'Ivoire. Pic: CN

Cocoa

Cote d’Ivoire’s cocoa exports plummet as COVID and LID disrupt market

By Anthony Myers

Sales of Cote d’Ivoire’s cocoa crop are the worst in decades, industry sources say, as COVID-19 drives down global demand for chocolate and the controversial Living Income Differential (LID) increases the price of its, and neighbouring Ghana’s, cocoa...