Chocolate

Is Cocoa Past Its Sell-By Date?

Markets

Is Cocoa Past Its Sell-By Date?

Cocoa-free chocolate brands are in the spotlight as soaring cocoa prices and shortages lead to mounting challenges for the mainstream industry.

Chocolate : Cocoa : Chocolate Market

Stat: Significant cocoa price drop offers relief to chocolate manufacturers

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Stat: Significant cocoa price drop offers relief to chocolate manufacturers

Cocoa prices have plummeted by 30% in just a few weeks, marking a significant reversal from their recent record high levels.

Food : Sustainability : Indulgence

Louis Vuitton opens first chocolate store in Singapore

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Louis Vuitton opens first chocolate store in Singapore

Luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton has taken a delectable leap beyond its French borders with the inauguration of Le Chocolat Maxime Frédéric, an e...

Luxury : Food : Indulgence

Re-engineering Indulgence

Micro Trends

Re-engineering Indulgence

Treat foods are being redeveloped – and redefined – by biotech brands who are using science to create better foods without foregoing flavour and pl...

Food : Drink : Technology

Cadbury’s virtual egg hunt digitises Easter traditions

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Cadbury’s virtual egg hunt digitises Easter traditions

Confectionary brand Cadbury has launched an online Easter egg hunt to enrich Easter festivities for families separated during the pandemic.

Food And Drink : UK : Chocolate

Tech-enabled chocolate that empowers cocoa farmers

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Tech-enabled chocolate that empowers cocoa farmers

The Other Bar is an experimental organic chocolate brand using technology to support cocoa farmers and producers.

Food : Ethical : Technology

Nestlé closes the loop on sweetening chocolate

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Nestlé closes the loop on sweetening chocolate

The brand has created a unique chocolate made entirely from the cocoa fruit, using the beans and pulp as the only ingredients.

Food : Chocolate : Health

Thought-starter: Is it time for chocolate-makers to innovate?

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Thought-starter: Is it time for chocolate-makers to innovate?

Despite the threat from climate change, the chocolate sector is thriving, with product innovation fuelling regional flavours and free-from treats.

Food : Sustainability : Supply Chain

Chocolate Market

Markets

Chocolate Market

Despite climate change threatening supply chains, the chocolate sector is thriving, with product innovation fuelling regional flavours and free-fro...

Food : Sustainability : Supply Chains

Big Ideas

Why this Nordic brand is banking on ‘not chocolate’

Kaakao bars are sweetened with date powder instead of sugar and cannot be called chocolate. We spoke to founder Stephanie Seege about how she ...

Chocolate : Food Labelling : Product Innovation

Preview: Regenerative Consumption

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Preview: Regenerative Consumption

Global – Ecological consciousness is inspiring new products that feed back to their sources in a cycle of regeneration.

Patagonia : Patagonia Provisions : Harper Macaw

Chocolate for good

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Chocolate for good

Washington DC, US – Chocolatier Harper Macaw is helping to counteract the effects of deforestation caused by cacao farming.

Harper Macaw : Chocolate : Cacao

Clinical confectionery

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Clinical confectionery

Nicosia – Cypriot confectionery company Oliphen has given the Mediterranean diet a scientific makeover with its range of antioxidant chocolate.

Oliphen : Packaging : Chocolate

Superfood futures

Big Ideas

Superfood futures

Global – Peruvian lucuma is the next superfood poised to take the Western world by storm.

Lucuma : Mintel : Superfood

Style of the times

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Style of the times

Vilnius, Lithuania – Retailer House of Naive is reframing contemporary Lithuanian style in its new flagship store.

House Of Naive : Vilnius : G. Natkevicius

Big Ideas

Take a break

UK – Nestlé’s KitKat and Google’s YouTube have joined forces to provide customers with the perfect break.

Nestle : YouTube My Break : Google

FutureFest 2015

Big Ideas

FutureFest 2015

For its second edition, Nesta’s FutureFest explored the future of food, thrills and money.

Cryptocurrencies : Morgaine Gaye : Thrill Laboratory

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Chocolate bar

Tokyo – Belgian chocolatier BbyB has opened its first Tokyo store with a striking two-tone space by Japanese design studio Nendo.

Nendo : BbyB : Chocolate

Ore-some images: Food styling is down to earth

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Ore-some images: Food styling is down to earth

London – Art director Katie Fotis has collaborated with Bompas & Parr and photographer Steve Gallagher to create a series of images that depict nat...

Natural : Styling : Cake

Choc art: The sweet treats that look like paints

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Choc art: The sweet treats that look like paints

Japan – Japanese design studio Nendo has created a set of chocolates that look like oil paints.

Hong Kong : Chocolat : Edible

Frying high: Bakery puts dessert on a pedestal

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Frying high: Bakery puts dessert on a pedestal

Barcelona – Self-styled chocolate kitchen Chök holds chocolate confectionery in such high regard that it displays doughnuts as if they were fine je...

Design : Grey : The Tomorrow Store

Google and Nestlé join forces on new Android OS

Big Ideas

Google and Nestlé join forces on new Android OS

Google and Nestlé join forces on new Android OS

Branding : Brand : Brandjacking

Big Ideas

Chocolate brand makes the product the message

Chocolate brand makes the product the message

Chocolate : Sharing : France

Churn, baby, churn: Ice cream made with pedal power

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Churn, baby, churn: Ice cream made with pedal power

Los Angeles – A new ice cream shop is creating its frozen treats using bicycle power.

Organic : Green Power : Energy Scavenging

Pilot scheme: Milk drink given no-nonsense push

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Pilot scheme: Milk drink given no-nonsense push

London – Graphic design consultancy PB Creative has created the visual identity for chocolate milk drink Wing-Co that features a playfully mac...

Chocolate : PB Creative : Ben Lambert

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