The Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa has been launched, 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.

41 players from the Swiss cocoa industry have joined together to form the Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa, and Barry Callebaut is one of its founding members. The platform members have agreed on the goal that by 2025, at least 80 % of the cocoa-containing products imported into Switzerland should come from sustainable cultivation. The founding members include the industry association Chocosuisse, manufacturers, importers and distributors of cocoa-containing products, Swiss retailers, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), non-profit organizations and research institutions.

All members of the cocoa platform are actively and collectively committed to strengthening the sustainability of the cocoa production and value chain. An important advantage of the cocoa platform is that it provides a framework for closer cooperation between the private sector and the public sector. In this way, economic development cooperation, provided in various cocoa-growing countries, can have a greater impact. After the Netherlands and Germany, Switzerland is now the third country where the chocolate and confectionary industry has committed to a clear target for the sourcing of sustainable cocoa.