Tootsie Roll Industries has seen mixed financial performance, with revenue dropping but margins improving due to cost-cutting ...

European chocolate makers and consumers are feeling the impact of poor cocoa harvests in West Africa caused by a viral disease and climate change.Oliver Coppeneur, a chocolate maker from Bad Honnef in ...

“This is a 97-year-old business,” Mr Widdowson said. “I have been directly involved in it for eight years. I have got no desire to come in and rip up the rulebook and start doing something entirely ...

So, as you savor chocolate, remember the fragile ecosystems behind it. The price of cocoa in early 2025 was near its all-time high, due in part to dry conditions in Africa. Without urgent action to ...