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Coronavirus

How flavor-supplier FONA is navigating COVID-19

Flavor company, which was declared essential, is training staff on sanitation procedures (including executives), offering digital events, and staggering shifts to increase social distancing.

Crystal Lindell

April 10, 2020

FONA talks about how the company is training staff — including executives — on sanitation procedures and managing supply chain issues, while offering digital alternatives to in-person events.

Chocolate trends: Premium, protein-packed and principled

Gretchen Hadden of Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate talks chocolate trends.

Alyse Thompson-Richards

April 7, 2020

Chocolate offers an opportunity to indulge, but it also serves as a palette for flavor innovation and provides an entry point into where and how cocoa is grown, harvested and processed.

Coronavirus

Hershey: Chocolate is the top quarantine comfort snack

Chocolate company outlines ways it’s finding to comfort the world during the pandemic.

April 3, 2020

Chocolate is the top quarantine comfort snack. That’s according to Hershey, which is also outpacing the category.

Coronavirus

Hershey expresses concern over impact of COVID-19

In a public stock filing, Hershey said it's working to navigate a number of issues related to the pandemic.

Crystal Lindell

April 1, 2020

Hershey said it’s expecting to face a number of challenges as a result of the current COVID-19 global pandemic, including a reduced demand for products, reduced availability of its products, and issues with the supply chain, among other things.

Child labor

Olam Cocoa continues work to eradicate child labor

In the 2018/2019 Olam global cocoa supply chain, the companies identified 7,059 cases of child labor in the sustainability programs run with its branded partners.

Billie Elmqvist Thuren

March 31, 2020

The complexity of child labor means one intervention will never be enough – what is required is a broad range of preventative and remedial actions, both at the individual, community and national level.

Coronavirus

IFT cancels in-person event, moves to virtual experience

Organizers said they wanted to give attendees time to cancel travel arrangements.

Crystal Lindell

March 31, 2020

The Institute of Food Technologists' in-person event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Organizers are offering a virtual experience in its place.

Coronavirus

Tony’s Chocolonely continues to live its values amid coronavirus

Thecla Schaeffer, company’s head of marketing, discusses how the company is navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, while keeping its staff at the center.

Crystal Lindell

March 30, 2020

As an international company dependent on an international supply chain, Amsterdam-based Tony’s Chocolonely is working hard to live its values during the current coronavirus pandemic.

Fairtrade: Prices boost Ivorian farmers’ income by $15M in Q4 2019

More than 190K farmers, 140 cooperatives sold 64K metric tons of cocoa on Fairtrade terms in Q4 2019.

March 24, 2020

Fairtrade International says sales of Fairtrade-certified cocoa from Côte d’Ivoire in the fourth quarter of 2019 increased farmers’ earnings by approximately $15.1 million compared to non-Fairtrade cocoa.