Barry Callebaut has launched Caramel Aura, premium caramelized white chocolate solutions with no added flavors or colors, for customers in North America.

Cargill has entered into a multi-year research agreement with AeroFarms, a leader in controlled environment agriculture, aimed at improving cocoa bean yields and developing more climate-resistant agricultural practices.

Ari Melamud brings over two decades of executive management experience across consumer goods marketing, advertising and B2B specialty ingredients, providing a strategic fit to lead DouxMatok.

All North American better-for-you products will become Cocoa Horizons verified through the Cocoa Horizons Foundation.

Latitude’s dark chocolates contain only two ingredients, cocoa and cane sugar. All of its products and flavors draw on locally-sourced Ugandan ingredients from the milk and coffee to the vanilla.