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Barry Callebaut launches Future Farming Initiative (FFI)

Barry Callebaut launches Future Farming Initiative

Barry Callebaut launches Future Farming Initiative (FFI)

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Forever Chocolate outperforming on sustainability

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Barry Callebaut leading among peer companies in Sustainalytics assessment
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Helina Wang
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Meet Barry Callebaut's employees - Helina Wang

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Helina Wang, Digital and Brand Marketing Manager China, Hong Hong and Macau, and a passionate globetrotter.
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Noah Appiah
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Meet Barry Callebaut's employees - Noah Appiah

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Meet Noah Appiah, a devoted Sector Manager and cocoa farmer in Kumasi, Ghana.
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Meet Barry Callebaut's employees – Christie Cassagne
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Meet Barry Callebaut's employees - Christie Cassagne

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Christie Cassagne, a multilingual Management Assistant & Purchaser/Buyer at Barry Callebaut and a dog lover.
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Meet Barry Callebaut's employees - Jemi Boye-Okit
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Meet Barry Callebaut's employees

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Jemi Boye-Okit, Manager Global Material & Vendor Assurance at Barry Callebaut and a proud mother of 3 teenagers
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Dijana playing golf
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Meet Barry Callebaut's employees – Dijana Bacic

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Dijana Bacic, a dedicated Chief Audit Executive at Barry Callebaut and a keen golf player.
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50 chefs from around the world
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The secret behind the chefs’ art of chocolate tasting and sensory language

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We have always imagined pastry chefs, in starred kitchens from brasseries and bistros to nouvelle cuisine restaurants, to be the experts in chocolate tasting. After all, these demanding professionals have a huge capacity for innovation and creativity; capable of creating the most delightful chocolate creations. Many can passionately express their masterpieces in the most poetic language, easily triggering our mouth to salivate uncontrollably. How are these chefs trained to be masters in chocolate tasting?
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Barry Callebaut Story for World Day Against Child Labor 2018
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Teaming up with Hershey to eradicate child labor

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Monitoring the cocoa farmer communities from whom we source from on cases of the worst forms of child labor, is one example of how Barry Callebaut aims to eradicate child labor. Combining our efforts with our customers increases our impact.
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Antoine de Saint-Affrique's Closing Remark at CHOCOVISION 2018
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Committed to action

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In the name of the organizer of CHOCOVISION 2018, Antoine de Saint-Affrique, CEO of Barry Callebaut, just closed the fourth edition of the international biennial conference. Every two years, more than 200 leading personalities from industry, governments and civil society come together in Davos, Switzerland, to work together on securing a sustainable chocolate future for all stakeholders along the value chain – from the farmer to the consumer.
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World Bank Summit - Financing the transition to climate-smart agriculture
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Financing the transition to climate-smart agriculture

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Barry Callebaut’s Chief Innovation, Sustainability & Quality Officer Pablo Perversi took the stage May 23, 2018 at the World Bank Innovate for Climate Summit in Frankfurt (Germany). The topic at hand: financing sustainability. The focus of the summit was financing the transition towards a climate-smart agriculture that does not cause deforestation - a critical issue for Barry Callebaut.
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Krishnakumar Pillai
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Meet our new Head of Partnerships: Krishnakumar Pillai

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The new structure of the sustainability team is in place. One of its members is Krishnakumar Pillai, Head of Partnerships. Krishna will be in charge of identifying and working with external partners on sustainability. He is keen on impactful projects and getting the Forever Chocolate movement going! High time to get some more details from him…
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Barry Callebaut employee Sarono at cocoa nursery
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Earth Day: Powered by the people

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See how Barry Callebaut employees are helping nature to thrive:
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Empowering women in cocoa
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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2018 at Barry Callebaut - Spotlight on empowering women in cocoa

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Today Barry Callebaut joins thousands, if not millions around the globe celebrating International Women’s Day.
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Barry Callebaut launches pilot to drive systemic change in cocoa farming
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Barry Callebaut launches its first pilot to drive systemic change in cocoa farming

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Barry Callebaut launched its first Forever Chocolate Pilot in Indonesia. This is the first of a series of five pilot programs planned in cocoa origin countries that are intended to test theories of change in our quest to accelerate impact in sustainable cocoa production. We aim to increase the income of farmers, eradicate child labor and become carbon positive. Oliver Von Hagen, who is responsible for the Forever Chocolate pilots, provides further details.
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African women farmers - Cocoa Horizons is part of the Forever Chocolate movement by driving change in the cocoa sector
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Cocoa Horizons 2016/17 Full Year Report: See how the Foundation is part of the Forever Chocolate movement by driving change in the cocoa sector

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The Cocoa Horizons Foundation has released its year-end review highlighting the efforts and achievements it has implemented in 2016/17.
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Rainforest in Cameroon - Barry Callebaut has committed to become forest and carbon positive by 2025
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On our way to forest positive: Barry Callebaut’s global commitment to source 100% zero-deforestation

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If the chocolate industry does not commit to reducing its carbon footprint and achieve zero net deforestation in its supply chain, the ecosystems that provide chocolate ingredients will rapidly erode. Obviously, we could not let that happen.
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Chef training at Chocolate Academy center Shanghai
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Barry Callebaut’s romance with online chocolate in China

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George Zhang, managing director of Barry Callebaut China, looks into the phenomenon of Double 11 – the largest one-day online sales in China – and the company’s move for e-commerce in the country.
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Barry Callebaut cocoa farmers drying cocoa beans
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Swiss cocoa industry commits to sustainable cocoa

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Zurich - The Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa was launched today, and Barry Callebaut is proud to be one of the founding members. This platform will play an important role in creating the market pull for sustainably sourced cocoa.
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