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Combined industry action on improving farmer pay for the cocoa sector remains crucial for its future

It’s now been a full four years since Mondelēz released its pivotal ‘No Silver Bullets’ study that revealed the sheer scale of the $10 billion income gap that cocoa farmers in West Africa are facing to earn a living income.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, Regulatory, Sustainability

German confectionery businesses press ahead with strike action over pay and conditions

Germany’s confectionery trade body, the BDSI has branded industry manufacturing strikes in North Rhine-Westphalia are “completely unnecessary” as negotiations over pay and conditions have been further postponed until September, reports Neill Barston.

German confectionery sector offers above inflation pay offer to resolve industry pay dispute

A collective of confectionery companies operating in Germany have made a collective offer in an ongoing pay dispute with workers in the HamburgSchleswig-Holstein tariff area, amounting to an overall wage increase of 3.1% reports Neill Barston.

World Cocoa Conference 2024 preview

Editor Neill Barston speaks exclusively to Michel Arrion, executive director of the ICCO, ahead of this year’s World Cocoa Conference, which returns after a six-year pandemic-enforced break, with farmer pay at the heart of the agenda.

Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Regulatory, Sustainability

Guest blog: Major sector tests set to be unravelled at the World Cocoa Conference

With the World Cocoa Conference set to begin this weekend in Brussels, Belgium, Frank Joosten, Programme Director, Cocoa, at the IDH sustainable trade initiative, offers his view on some of the most pressing challenges facing the sector

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Sustainability

Strikes set to go ahead at Cargill UK confectionery manufacturing facility

Employees at a Cargill UK chocolate production plant at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, are moving ahead with plans to strike over levels of pay, surrounding the peak Christmas manufacturing period, writes Neill Barston.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, Regulatory, Sustainability

Ivory Coast’s 11% farmer pay increase falls short of industry’s hopes

The Ivory Coast has confirmed it is set to raise farmgate prices for cocoa by 11%, following calls from farmers for a significant rise in light of crop prices reaching sustained highs on global commodity markets, reports Neill Barston.

Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Ingredients, New products, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability

Valeo Fox’s Glacier Mint factory strike continues over pay and conditions

Employees at Fox’s Glacier Mint factory in York, UK, have entered a third day of strike action in protest at their terms of pay and conditions, writes Neill Barston.

Business news, Regulatory