News releases

Zurich/Switzerland, July 20, 2010 – Barry Callebaut AG welcomes the decision by the Sanction Commission of SIX Swiss Exchange announced today, under which the company is cleared of all charges relating to application of IFRS in its consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2007/08.

Barry Callebaut AG today announced its key sales figures for the first nine months of fiscal year 2009/10, ended May 31, 2010. Sales volume for the period under review came in at 975,044 tonnes, up 8.9%. Following the robust growth of 8.5% in the second quarter of the current fiscal year, sales volume growth accelerated to 11.3% in the third quarter.

Barry Callebaut AG today inaugurated a new chocolate factory located in Extrema, Minas Gerais, near São Paulo, Brazil – the company’s first chocolate factory in South America. The factory marks another cornerstone in Barry Callebaut’s strategy to selectively expand its geographic presence to emerging markets that offer above-average growth opportunities.

Barry Callebaut AG continued its robust growth with a sales volume increase of 7.8% in the first six months of fiscal year 2009/10 (ended February 28, 2010) against the background of a global chocolate market that was declining until the end of 2009 and only started to pick up as of early 2010.

During a signing ceremony in Putrajaya, Malaysia, in the presence of The Honorable Tan Sri Bernard Dompok, Minister of Plantation Industries & Commodities, Barry Callebaut Malaysia, subsidiary of Barry Callebaut AG, and the Malaysian Cocoa Board signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a collaborative research project that is expected to result in higher quality chocolate from superior quality Malaysian cocoa beans.