Cocoa prices are plunging. Why then is chocolate still so expensive?Producers and analysts expect cheaper cocoa to only start feeding through to supermarket aisles in the second half of next year, and even t...
20 Dec, 2025, 03.23 PM IST
Cash crunch stalls cocoa and coffee trading around the worldA surge in cocoa and coffee futures prices has strained traders' finances, hindering global shipments. Rising costs and financing difficult...
13 Mar, 2025, 09.06 AM IST
Cocoa traders say EU deforestation law set to fail, seek delayThe trade group, which represents top traders, including Barry Callebaut and Cargill Inc., called for an extension of the transition period...
19 Sep, 2024, 09.38 AM IST
Nestle's chocolate prices in focus as cocoa costs biteOver the past three years Nestle and other consumer goods companies have raised prices across their brands to cover sky-high input costs am...
25 Jul, 2024, 10.29 AM IST
Ivory Coast bans some cocoa sales in another threat to marketIvory Coast takes steps to secure scarce cocoa supplies for local processors, potentially restricting bean exports and tightening the globa...
08 Jun, 2024, 09.33 AM IST
Why prices for chocolate and cocoa went nutsFor much of the past decade, the price of cocoa in one key global benchmark hovered around $2,500 per metric ton.
13 May, 2024, 10.30 AM IST
Why the world of chocolate is in crisisFor the world’s chocolate makers, the crisis is here. Plants have been forced to shutter from Malaysia to Germany and Chicago.
22 Apr, 2024, 09.54 AM IST
Cocoa Conundrum: Chocolates and problems of the commodity cycleThe cocoa industry has faced challenges like price fluctuations and market manipulation, causing concerns about chocolate's future. Despite...
14 Apr, 2024, 10.35 AM IST
Cocoa’s relentless rally is pushing the market to breaking pointCocoa futures have surged as poor harvests in West Africa, where most of the world’s beans are grown, sparked a third year of shortages.
29 Mar, 2024, 10.07 AM IST
The meltdown in chocolate is comingOnly because millions of West African farmers saw cocoa as their only way to escape abject poverty, the world had plentiful supply and low ...
20 Feb, 2024, 09.59 AM IST
Chocolate prices are rising everywhere as cocoa rots in West AfricaIt’s a climate crisis playing out across Ivory Coast and Ghana, the heavyweights of cocoa, with consequences for global food inflation and ...
02 Dec, 2023, 09.53 AM IST
Robusta coffee hits record high, cocoa also climbs; lack of sales from Brazil causes surgeRobusta coffee futures have hit a record high due to limited supplies, with dealers reporting that Indonesia's No. 2 export crop has left b...
09 Jun, 2023, 03.15 PM IST
Raw sugar hits near 6-year high on lack of India suppliesDealers said mills in India are producing almost no raw sugar at the moment because whites are currently more lucrative, leaving the market...
15 Dec, 2022, 07.30 PM IST
Despite growing demand for chocolate, India imports most of its CocoaIn India, cocoa is grown primarily as an intercrop in Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, as the tree requires about 40-50 per cent s...
21 May, 2017, 01.16 AM IST
Brexit effect: Cashew, cocoa & pepper hit by weak rupeeEarlier, cashew kernel exports and raw nut imports were more or less matched. But now, imports are considerably higher.
28 Jun, 2016, 05.35 AM IST
- Cocoa butter dips in Europe after grinders boost processing
The cost of cocoa butter relative to the price of beans, or the so-called butter ratio, was 1.80 to 1.85 times cocoa futures.
21 Feb, 2013, 03.13 AM IST
- World 'faces chocolate drought in 2014'
The world is facing a "chocolate drought", according to an expert, whose warning is prompted by fears that the globe's sustainable cocoa su...
28 Jan, 2011, 01.22 PM IST