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Barry Callebaut 'Food Manufacturers' is the world's major manufacturer of high-quality cocoa, chocolate, chocolate related-products, fillings, inclusions and decorations for all sorts of applications. These include chocolate confectionery, ice-cream and desserts, chocolate dairy, biscuits and bakery, breakfast and snacking and sugar confectionery. Consumers are increasingly concerned about health issues, whilst at the same time not wanting to give up their indulgences. Barry Callebaut is able to meet such emerging demands by offering health and wellbeing chocolates like chocolate without added sugar, chocolate without milk or lactose ingredients etc... There are also certified products such as fairtrade, organic and kosher. With Barry Callebaut chocolates, health and indulgence can go hand in hand.
But there's more to Barry Callebaut than just our products. Our approach is to establish close working partnerships with our customers, so that together we can create products which exceed consumers' expectations. The expertise we have built up means that rather than just understanding the trends in our customers' markets, we can often anticipate them. R&D has always been one of our strengths and we have introduced many innovative products into a wide variety of markets.This is where our partnership approach really pays off. We don't simply help our customers by supplying their chosen ingredients, we can also offer support and advice about taste formulations, production processes and the many other aspects required for successful product development.
We have production sites all around the world and thousands of employees dedicated to providing our customers with nothing but the finest products and solutions.
Over the past 155 years, the company has built up unrivalled experience in every area of chocolate making, from sourcing the best cocoa beans to creating and producing top quality finished chocolate and chocolate-based products.
Our core values are customer focus, passion, entrepreneurship, team spirit and integrity.
30-Oct-2008 - Efforts this month under the sustainability mantle by leading pod-to-pallet cocoa player Barry Callebaut include a 250,000 tree-planting project in Tanzania, and a tripling of grindings in Ivory Coast.
16-Sep-2008 - Two major confectionery players have this month announced inroads into Russia, demonstrating that cocoa ingredients suppliers and their customers are seeking to spear fresh wins in Russia's emerging, and burgeoning, confectionery market.
11-Aug-2008 - Swiss firm Barry Callebaut is continuing its strategy for growth in emerging markets with the opening of its first chocolate academy in India.
28-Jul-2008 - Focusing further on cocoa bean sourcing and processing, Zurich-based Barry Callebaut spins-off Chococam, the last of its consumer activities in Africa, to South African food firm Tiger Brands.
15-Jul-2008 - Strategies for confectionery makers to absorb rocketing price rises are essential as cocoa prices crash through the $3000 barrier, with demand outstripping supplies and pulling the stocks-to-grindings ratio to a 22-year low.
10-Jul-2008 - Herculean efforts are required by the global chocolate industry to ensure that sourced cocoa supplies are not linked to exploited or trafficked child labour, underlines labour watchdog International Labor Rights Forum.
09-Jul-2008 - Cargill has opened a new innovation center for snack and cereal products which it says will help food manufacturers create new products that drive sales growth.
03-Jul-2008 - Barry Callebaut today opened its first innovation center in the US to focus on the development of new chocolate products meeting the preferences of American consumers.
01-Jul-2008 - New outsourcing contracts for industrial cocoa from new and existing chocolate makers boost volume growth for cocoa supplier Barry Callebaut, helping to offset harmful exchange rates, energy prices and inflation.
06-Jun-2008 - There is a growing demand for cocoa from Latin America to meet the increasing popularity of premium chocolates in Europe and the US, according to a speaker at the recent meeting of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) in Ecuador.