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Barry Callebaut has acquired Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Company Ltd. in Ghana.

Chocolate connoisseurs may delight in the “meltin- your-mouth” quality that chocolate has, but sometimes a compound coating is just as delectable.

Olam Int’l Ltd. has finally completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of ADM’s cocoa business — and the result is the newly created entity Olam Cocoa.

Barry Callebaut has launched a new platform for chocolate companies and other contributors to help support sustainable cocoa.

KitKat has announced a global pledge to use only sustainably sourced cocoa for its products starting the first quarter of 2016.

Barry Callebaut has finally come to an agreement with Petra Foods on their deal to buy Petra’s cocoa ingredients division.

Cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire, Brazil, Cameroon, Ghana and Indonesia received $19 million in premiums for selling certified cocoa beans in 2014 through Cargill’s Cocoa Promise program.

"Opening a grading facility in Amsterdam puts this important function within close proximity of the key cocoa storage facilities, therefore improving the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the futures sampling and grading process," says Cees Vermaas, ceo of CME Europe.