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

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

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 chocolates always seek to show how deep your love is. This year, it might just also show how deep your pockets ...

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 ...

Money can’t buy you love — or as much cocoa as it used to, with adverse weather denting West African crops and chocolatiers ...

Record high cocoa prices might make your Valentine's Day gifts somewhat bittersweet this year. Here's why chocolate is more ...

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

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 ...