One way to tackle these problems is to make chocolate without using cocoa beans — the fermented seed of the cacao tree. Cocoa-free chocolate is already available but scientists around the world ...

Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut (BARN.S), opens new tab lowered its annual sales volume guidance on Thursday due to what it called "unprecedented volatility" in cocoa bean prices ...

Companies are crafting new ways to grow cocoa, and chocolate alternatives, to keep up with demand Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate ...

Cocoa grindings for the first quarter totaled 213,898 metric tons, compared with 221,530 tons a year earlier, the figures showed. On a quarterly basis, cocoa grindings rose 1.8% in the first quarter ...

Barry Callebaut reported a 4.7% decline in first-half fiscal 2025 sales volumes, as average cocoa bean prices surged 95% year over year. A downward revision in full-year volume growth guidance and ...

Between September 2024 and February 2025, the price of cocoa beans soared by 95%, forcing the group to pass on this increase to its customers. While sales volumes fell by 4.7% year-on-year to 1.09 ...