date:Apr 09, 2013
emand went up and prices followed, that will help us in the second half.
Balli also said the cocoa bean crop outlook was relatively good. We expect prices to stay stable or to fall slightly.
The prospect of a large West African April-September cocoa crop plus a lag in forward sales from Ivory Coast and Ghana pushed cocoa prices to an 11-month low in March.
Barry Callebaut, the world's biggest maker of finished chocolate products, has been benefiting from a trend towards outsourcing chocolate