Nestlé’s confectionery sales rose despite steep price hikes, but falling volume suggests chocolate may be nearing peak price.

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In 2024 and 2025, cocoa bean prices have soared to historic levels. If chocolate is central to your product lineup, you’re ...

Soaring cocoa prices and the cost-of-living crisis are pushing confectioners to rethink pricing, pack sizes, and innovation. Discover how brands are adapting to the new confectionery economy.

Traceability from farm to first purchase, common definitions of protected areas and paying farmers a living income are three ways stakeholders say can help end cocoa-driven deforestation in West ...

Long-awaited US government-funded report from National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (NORC) that assesses progress in reducing child labour in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana’s cocoa ...

British sweet maker Swizzels is upping its vegan sweet output to cash in on Veganuary, a non-profit charity event that aims to inspire consumers to take up – and hopefully continue – the vegan diet ...

Discover how Latin America and Asia are helping confectionery brands secure cocoa supplies and navigate global production challenges in 2025.

The Rowntree Society has said it has uncovered links to slavery and historic racial abuse in the brand's supply chain in light of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Rowntree chocolate factory in ...

Global confectionery producers face rising costs and trade disruption as new US tariffs hit chocolate, candy, and gum exports from Europe, Switzerland, and Canada.