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Open letter feud: ICCO and cocoa producer group at odds on farmer inclusivity

08-Feb-2016 By Oliver Nieburg

The International CoCoa Farmers Organization has called for greater farmer involvement in cocoa sustainability efforts and plans to host a conference alongside the International Cocoa Organization’s top event after its board membership request was rejected.

Chocolate shortage ‘overstated in the extreme’, says ICCO

24-Nov-2014 By Oliver Nieburg

The International Cocoa Organization has quelled media reports of a chocolate crisis in 2020 and says there are sufficient cocoa stocks for the next five years.

Chocolatiers offered ‘some release’ as ICCO extends cocoa surplus

02-Sep-2014 By Oliver Nieburg

The International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) has revised its estimate for the 2013/14 cocoa season and now expects a slightly larger supply surplus.

Dispatches from World Cocoa Conference 2014

Cocoa surplus for 2013/14; small deficit for next season - ICCO

12-Jun-2014 By Oliver Nieburg

The International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) has estimated a cocoa surplus for the current crop year, but said the market would return to a small deficit next year.

Enough cocoa for chocolate makers this year but price hike looms: ICCO

05-Sep-2013 By Oliver Nieburg

The International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) has slightly reduced its cocoa deficit forecast for the current crop year and says there are ample stocks for chocolate manufacturers, but a deficit next year could raise prices.

No cocoa crisis in 2017, says Euromonitor

17-Jan-2013 By Oliver Nieburg

Euromonitor International is predicting that demand for cocoa products will not outstrip supply by 2017, contrary to the International Cocoa Organization’s (ICCO) forecasted cocoa deficit.

ICCO cuts cocoa deficit forecast

04-Jun-2012 By Oliver Nieburg

The International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) anticipates a lower than expected global cocoa shortage in the 2011/12 season due to ideal weather conditions and higher grinds in some cocoa producing countries.

Large cocoa purchase to have negligible impact on choc industry, ICCO

21-Jul-2010 By Jane Byrne

The reported purchase of 240,100 tonnes of cocoa on the London futures market by a sole trader will not impact hugely on supply to industry, as cocoa processors have already shored up bean stocks for the next four months, claims the International Cocoa...

Global cocoa deficit increases, says report

03-Jan-2008 By Charlotte Eyre

The International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) estimates that the
world's current cocoa shortfall is now 55 per cent larger than
previously thought, after adverse weather conditions led to crop
reductions over the 2006/07 season.

Chocolatiers face further cocoa market confusion

23-Nov-2007 By Neil Merrett

A strong increase in cocoa supply from the Ivory Coast has failed
to put an end to market uncertainty over the price of the
commodity, says the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO).