Milestone highlighted in company’s Forever Chocolate Progress Report 2019-20, marking its progress towards the goal of ‘making sustainable chocolate the norm by 2025’.
Cote d’Ivoire has announced it has lifted its suspension on cocoa sustainability schemes run by Hershey, in the latest twist in the ‘cheap beans’ row that has threatened to jeopardise the delicate relationship between the big chocolate companies and cocoa-growing...
BLC has launched a shea-based premium cocoa butter equivalent. It says the nutritionally balanced ingredient will support food manufacturers to meet consumer demand for health-conscious and sustainable options that don’t compromise on taste and quality.
A star-studded list of ‘serious friends’, including rapper Pharrell Williams and actor Idris Elba, joined the Dutch ethical chocolate brand at a virtual fairground meeting full of razzmatazz and meaning, watched by choco fans around the globe.
The Mondelez brand is becoming an official sponsor of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation in 2021 to help its efforts in building a braver and kinder world.
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...
New supplements brand, FIGHT, has partnered with leading UK food redistribution charity, FareShare, in order to support its efforts in tackling hunger across the country.
IFF Health, part of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc, has announced a new partnership with DolCas Biotech, to market the sale of Curcugen, a next-gen, all-natural turmeric extract for both the dietary supplement and food and beverage industries.
In this special CN Q&A, Holly Finnegan, Senior Regulatory Affairs Advisor at Ashbury, experts in product regulatory issues and labelling compliance, looks at the fast-growing CBD market, the complicated regulatory situation and lack of labelling enforcement...
After two decades of failed interventions across the cocoa sector, cocoa farming communities are still battling the effects of poverty, child labour and deforestation, the new report highlights.
European discount supermarket Lidl has announced a new deal with Fairtrade America to offer US customers a unique private label chocolate bar that contributes to a living income for cocoa farmers.
