With the price of cocoa beans setting unprecedented records on the commodities market, it will certainly turn the gift of ...

Rising cocoa prices, driven by climate change, are reshaping Valentine’s Day chocolates. Extreme heat and erratic rainfall in ...

Valentine’s Day 2025 sees a 512% surge in chocolate sales, despite soaring cocoa prices and supply chain challenges. Discover ...

High cocoa prices have made the cost of Valentine's Day chocolates more bittersweet this year. Why it matters: Chocolate ...

St Valentine's Day chocolates are always a great way to show how deep your love is. But this year, it might just also show ...

Roses are red, violets are blue, chocolate is rich -- and more expensive now too. Crushing diseases that purged cocoa crops in West Africa, combined with a difficult growing season -- similar to the ...

and shift to non-chocolate confections on higher prices, Mizuho’s John Baumgartner said. For Mondelez (MDLZ), the outlook is less gloomy since cocoa only represents ~12% of COGS resulting in a ...

Hershey's chocolate ... Underinvestment, old cocoa trees, bad weather, and diseases are impacting production. And then there's the investor speculation that's making the price issue even worse ...

EACH CHOCOLATE BAR HE MAKES HAS A DIFFERENT TASTE, BUT IT’S NOT CHEAP GETTING THESE BEANS COCOA FUTURES ON THE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE, WHICH IS CONSIDERED A BENCHMARK FOR COCOA PRICES ...