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Barry Callebaut was the lead sponsor for the City of Chicago's 3rd annual "Halloweek" Arts in the Dark Parade, bringing together artists, City leaders, cultural organizations and residents of Chicago to celebrate Halloween on historic State Street.

Barry Callebaut Americas officially breaks ground on their new specialty chocolate factory in Brantford, Ontario.

Barry Callebaut is positioned as #1 out of 579 companies in the ‘Food Product’ category by Sustainalytics. This is the fourth consecutive year that Barry Callebaut has been recognized as an industry leader in the management of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks in our supply chain.

Positive growth momentum in Indonesia

Barry Callebaut explores collaborative ways to drive sustainability commitments such as effective traceability across the global value chains.

Today, we officially opened our centrally-located Greater China headquarters as well as China’s flagship CHOCOLATE ACADEMY™ center in Shanghai.

Pre-harvest activities, in particular, are critical to boost productivity. This year, Barry Callebaut is supporting 10,000 farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana with pre-harvest interventions by providing external labor and subsidized soil inputs. In the coming crop season, we aim to scale our new approach deploying large-scale labor teams to reach more farmers in our supply chain.

A joint cocoa diversification project with Prova improves vanilla farmer livelihoods in Madagascar – and supplies Barry Callebaut customers with sustainable vanilla.

Combined with our long-established expertise in innovation and sustainability, Ecuador is the perfect match for Barry Callebaut to build a dedicated hub to power cocoa farming research to support cocoa farming resilience and productivity.

Barry Callebaut celebrates International Women's Day: #BreakTheBias in Asia Pacific

March 17, 2022 marks the 15th anniversary of Barry Callebaut Americas' Headquarters opening in Chicago, an investment that has led to huge growth in the North American market.

Barry Callebaut’s long-term reforestation project in the Agbo 2 Forest seeks to restore the forest, protect one of the world’s most biodiversity-rich and fragile ecosystems and support cocoa farmer livelihoods.

CDP, the gold standard of environmental reporting, has again recognized Barry Callebaut for our work with suppliers to achieve our science-based targets, tackle climate change and become carbon and forest positive.

Out of nearly 12,000 companies which were scored by CDP in 2021, Barry Callebaut is one of 24 high-performing companies, securing a place on CDP’s prestigious ‘A List’. After ranking for four years in a row as a CDP global climate leader with a score of A- for our climate reduction efforts, we are now for the first time, making the ‘A List’ as a leader in corporate action and transparency on deforestation.

Cleantech Solar’s project at Barry Callebaut’s cocoa factory in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia

Barry Callebaut has reduced by more than -17% its carbon intensity per tonne of product since the start of Forever Chocolate in 2016.

Mona Lisa, the global decoration brand of Barry Callebaut, continues its geographical expansion and is now also present in Mexico. We celebrated this important milestone with Chef José Ramón Castillo, the renowned star chocolatier from Mexico, via live-stream.