Our Cocoa

OUR COCOA

OUR COCOA

Doing the right thing to make really good chocolate. We truly believe, to source really good cocoa the people who grow it and the environment in which it is grown must be doing well.That is why we take responsibility for the entire supply chain: from cocoa cultivation to the finished product – in harmony with people and nature.

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Our Cocoa is a real

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Our Cocoa takes us to Latin America – Nicaragua and Peru to be precise –
and to West Africa – Côte d’Ivoire,
Ghana and Nigeria.






Our cocoa takes us to Latin America – Nicaragua and Peru to be precise – and to West Africa – Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria.

Our Cocoa is a real

GLOBETROTTER

Our Cocoa

AT A GLANCE

100% CERTIFIED COCOA

All the cocoa we source has been certified since 2018. By the way, we are the first major chocolate manufacturer to do so.

OUR COCOA PROGRAMMES

90% (as of 2023) of our cocoa comes from long-term partnerships with producer organisations in cocoa-growing countries, which we support through our cocoa programmes.

OUR INVESTMENTS: 7 MILLION EUROS

We invest around seven million euros a year in our cocoa programmes in Middle and South America and in West Africa.

ASSURED ORIGIN

In order to protect the forests, we have been supporting the mapping of the cocoa farms of all participants in our cocoa programmes for years.

OUR COCOA FARM: 2,500 HECTARES

On 1,200 hectares we grow our fine cocoa in a sustainable agroforestry system. Furthermore, we protect another 1,200 hectares of forests and wetland on our farm.

Our Cocoa

AT A GLANCE

100% CERTIFIED COCOA

All the cocoa we source has been certified since 2018. By the way, we are the first major chocolate manufacturer to do so.

OUR COCOA PROGRAMMES

90% (as of 2023) of our cocoa comes from long-term partnerships with producer organisations in cocoa-growing countries, which we support through our cocoa programmes.

OUR INVESTMENTS: 7 MILLION EUROS

We invest around seven million euros a year in our cocoa programmes in Middle and South America and in West Africa.

ASSURED ORIGIN

We joined the Science Based Targets Initiative and set us the ambitious goal to reduce our emissions (Scope 1 – 3) by 42 %. After all, it is more important to reduce emissions than to compensate for them retrospectively.

OUR COCOA FARM: 2,500 HECTARES

On 1,200 hectares we grow our fine cocoa in a sustainable agroforestry system. Furthermore, we protect another 1,200 hectares of forests and wetland on our farm.

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Would you like to know more about our commitment and our passion concerning cocoa? Our detailed OUR COCOA report is available here.

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OUR COCOA REPORT

Would you like to know more about our commitment and our passion concerning cocoa? Our detailed OUR COCOA report
is available here.

FAQs

  • WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR COCOA FROM?

    We source our cocoa mainly through partnerships in West Africa – Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria and from Latin America –Nicaragua and Peru.

  • HOW MUCH COCOA DO YOU NEED?

    We need about 10.000 tonnes of cocoa mass and 10.000 tonnes of cocoa butter.

  • DO YOU KNOW WHO GROWS YOUR COCOA?

    We source about 90% (as of 2023) through cocoa programmes with our partners in the cocoa growing countries.

FAQs

  • WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR COCOA FROM?

    We source our cocoa mainly through partnerships in West Africa – Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria and from Latin America – Nicaragua and Peru.

  • HOW MUCH COCOA DO YOU NEED?

    We need about 10.000 tonnes of cocoa mass and 10.000 tonnes of cocoa butter.

  • DO YOU KNOW WHO GROWS YOUR COCOA?

    We source about 90% (as of 2023) through cocoa programmes with our partners in the cocoa growing countries.

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