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A tropical storm hit Madagascar last week. It was one of the most powerful storms in the last 13 years. Barry Callebaut provides immediate assistance to support local farmers on the ground. From Tuesday to Friday last week, powerful tropical cyclone Enawo hit Madagascar and crossed the island from North to South, with strong winds,…
Nestlé rolled out a plan to reduce the sugar content in its products in UK by 10 % until 2018. Nestlé will therefore cut 7,500 tons of sugar out of the products just by reformulation and new production technologies. The company said the reformulation will not affect the taste of the products. All over Europe…
Cargill introduced a newly developed texturizing solution that will enable confectionery manufacturers to achieve optimal texture and transparency while reducing drying time by up to 50 % for their gelatin-free winegum applications. The new Cargill product – C*Clearset® 35426 – is a blend of specialty starches for gelatin-free sugar confectionery applications with outstanding functionality. It…
New study shows the road to make cocoa a sustainable and high yielding crop is still long. Even with the support of an increasing amount of sustainability projects, most cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire still live far below the poverty line. A new study executed by the French Development Agency (AFD) and Barry-Callebaut, the world’s…
German chocolate manufacturer Alfred Ritter (Ritter Sport) announced to reach full sustainability on the cocoa sourcing side until 2020 maybe earlier. With Cacao-Nica Ritter is running a sustainability programme in Nicaragua since 1990. In 2017 3,500 farmers are connected to this programme. In the eastern region of Nicaragua Ritter builds its own cocoa farm containing…
Cargill and the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) partners up to improve lives of children in Cote d´Ivoire. Cargill already works with ICI since 2002. The company now scales up the commitment with a monitoring system in Cargill´s supply chain to identify and protect children especially those involved in child labour. The model for child labour…
Italian confectionery giant Ferrero has run a pro-palm oil campaign in Italian TV, print and online. The TV ad was run in November 2016. Vincenzo Tapella, purchasing manager at Ferrero said that the palm oil Ferrero uses in it´s main brand Nutella is safe, sustainable and processed under controlled temperatures. The company told Foodnavigator that…
The two big cocoa farmer organisations WCFO (World Cocoa Farmers Organization) and The International CoCoa Farmers Organisation (ICCFO) have merged. The executive secretary Sako Warren told media, the new umbrella organisation will be run under the name of WFCO. Warren also claimed industry support for smallholders. Smallholder cocoa famers still produce 95% of the world´s…
The latest addition to the Gerkens cocoa powder range from Cargill is an intense dark red cocoa powder with unique colour attributes that make it the only powder of its kind on the market. Produced as a result of a Research & Development (R&D) breakthrough by Gerkens technical specialists at the Gresik cocoa processing facility…
Ingredients giant Cargill will invest 35m Euros in its European manufacturing facilities in Poland, the UK and the Netherlands. The company announced to increase the production of glucose and fructose syrups for a better sweetener portfolio. The investment illustrates Cargill’s ambition to be fully equipped to deal with the growing demand for sweetness solutions and…