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Featured news, News / 18 January 2013 / Barry Callebaut
Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, is strengthening its presence in Scandinavia by acquiring ASM Foods AB in Sweden from Carletti A/S of Denmark. The transaction includes a specialty factory in Mjölby, focused on the production of specialty compound chocolate, fillings and inclusions. This acquisition will add a total production capacity of 35,000 tonnes.
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Featured news, News / 31 October 2012 / Barry Callebaut
Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, announced today the building of a factory for chocolate and compounds in Eskisehir, Turkey. The new facility will serve as a basis to participate in the further growth potential of the Turkish chocolate market as well as to capture opportunities in the regional market.
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Industry news, News / 17 July 2012 / Barry Callebaut
Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, today announced that the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) issued a positive opinion on the company’s health claim dossier submitted last year. Barry Callebaut received a health claim that “cocoa flavanols help maintain endothelium-dependent vasodilation which contributes to normal blood flow.” The company was able to provide evidence that the intake of 200 mg of cocoa flavanols (provided by 2.5g of high-flavanol cocoa powder or 10g of high-flavanol dark chocolate) positively influence blood circulation in the human body. Barry Callebaut is the first company in the EU to obtain a positive Scientific Opinion on a health claim on cocoa flavanols.
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Featured news, News / 14 June 2012 / Barry Callebaut
Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, and Morinaga, one of Japan’s largest confectionery companies, today signed an agreement to extend their long-term strategic partnership signed early 2008. Both parties agreed on a new, 10-year supply agreement for up to 16,000 tonnes of chocolate and compound products a year. For this, Morinaga and Barry Callebaut will also intensify their cooperation in the field of Research & Development (R&D) and jointly develop new products.
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Industry news, News / 23 January 2012 / Barry Callebaut
Barry Callebaut AG, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products and Unilever, one of the world’s foremost consumer goods companies and global market leader in ice cream, announced today the signing of a new long-term global partnership agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Barry Callebaut will become Unilever’s strategic global supplier and innovation partner of choice for its cocoa and chocolate needs.
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Industry news, News / 17 January 2012 / Barry Callebaut AG
Barry Callebaut AG, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, and Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV, one of the largest food companies in Latin America, announced today the signing of a new long-term supply agreement for Bimbo’s operations in Mexico. Under the terms of the agreement, Barry Callebaut will supply the plants of Grupo Bimbo with up to 32,000 tonnes of chocolate products annually for its domestic market, through the company’s Mexican factories in Toluca and Monterrey. The projected volumes will start immediately.
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Industry news, News / 11 July 2011 / Barry Callebaut
Barry Callebaut AG, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, today announced signing the sale of its European consumer business Stollwerck to the Belgian Baronie Group. The share deal comprises the entire Stollwerck Group including five factories in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. The transaction also includes a long-term supply agreement between Baronie Group and Barry Callebaut for the supply of approximately 25,000 tonnes of liquid chocolate annually as well as the additional supply of cocoa beans and semi-finished products.
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Industry news, News / 9 September 2010 / External Communications
Barry Callebaut, the world’s largest manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, and Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT), the world’s second largest food company and a global leader in confectionery, today announced the signing of a long-term global master product agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the parties expect Barry Callebaut to deliver the majority of Kraft Foods cocoa products and industrial chocolate requirements around the world. The agreement, which also includes some of the Cadbury liquid chocolate deliveries under the current outsourcing agreement, is expected to more than double Barry Callebaut’s existing business with Kraft Foods. The parties agreed not to disclose any further terms of the agreement. As a result of this agreement.
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