ABOCFA is farmer cooperative producing high quality both organic and Fairtrade dry cocoa beans for export. We are organic and Fairtrade certified by Control Union and FLOCERT respectively for the past ten years. ABOCFA has almost 700 small farmers and has the capacity to produce 1500MT per year. We have clients such as Tony’s Chocolonely, TAZA Chocolates, Kaoka and Felchlin who buy some of the cocoa beans from us through the exporter known as Cocoasource

We are a Nicaraguan cacao and coffee company that connects farmers to consumers through fair and direct trade. We work with individual farmers, associations, and cooperatives that produce UTZ, Organic, and Fair Trade certified cacao and coffee in order to bring their high-quality products to new markets.

We create a stable, predictable, transparent, and direct connection between chocolate makers and cacao growers. We do this through a double commitment: to our growers, and to our customers.
The commitment to our growers makes cultivating cacao sustainable for them, environmentally and socially. It changes the lives of our growers and their families.
And our commitment to excellence, traceability, and consistency allows chocolate makers to know the source of their product and depend on it for their chocolate.
We are very proud of what our team has accomplished in a short time, and I look forward to sharing with you as we move forward.

We are a family owned business based in Basel Switzerland with deep rooting in Cameroon. We work directly with cooperatives and farmers in Cameroon. In close collaborations with them we are working on getting the best quality out of this wonderful product. Our goal is to establish a sustainable supply chain with fair conditions. The implementation of our goals is more important to us then a label. We want to build the future with our partners and looking forward to meet you at Chocoa 2019.

Chocolats Halba Honduras, is the company that represents and works hand in hand with more than 20 organizations that hold more than 3,000 small producers of cocoa beans, under organic and agroforestry systems of production, to offer the world the most fine and flavor cocoa beans of the highest quality.

Control Union Certifications B.V. is a certification body operating with local offices in more than 100 countries. We offer certification programs including GLOBALG.A.P., Organic, Social compliance, RSPO, UTZ and Food safety. We firmly believe in a decentralized organization in order to support creativity of our employees and entrepreneurship. This approach enables the group to develop innovative and flexible solutions for our clients and avoids bureaucracy. Nevertheless, all business units need to comply with our safety, quality, sustainability and financial management systems. CUC is a family company in its origin and the 5th generation of our founder still works in the company.

DZB employs people who require a helping hand in getting back to work for various reasons, for example due to illness, disability or a setback or because they need to slow down for a while. We produce chocolate of the finest quality for major established brands and start-ups. And we also offer different packaging options. Our chocolate factory has a first-rate production facility, a spacious packaging hall and a climate-controlled warehouse, all in accordance with statutory food safety requirements. This means DZB can take care of the entire production process for you from start to finish.

Farmerline is a Ghanaian social enterprise seeking to leverage technology and data to transform millions of farmers into successful entrepreneurs. Incorporated in 2013, it has built a social business, software technology, and partnership network reaching over 200,000 farmers across 11 countries in Africa. We are dedicated to improving the livelihood of farmers through information-based mobile technology services, and has developed an innovative information product that provides climate-smart agronomic tips to farmers in their local languages. This product delivers good agricultural practices, weather reports, and market information systems for farmers to increase their profits and make farming practices more sustainable.

Cacao Caribe is an innovative company dedicated with passion to the creation of high-ends products based on fine flavour cocoa with denomination of origin 100% Venezuelan. We have a privileged location in the central region of Venezuela that allow us to guarantee the complete traceability of our grains. We bring the service of Maquila, Grain Purchase F1 and F2, Development of grains and liquor profiles, Nibs (Natural F2 and Fermented F1) , 100% cocoa cover and fine flavour cocoa liquor from Rio Caribe and Sur del Lago starting from F1, F2 grains or blend.

ITC aims to assist Netherlands in creating sustainable trade linkages with the developing world by sourcing good quality products from these growing export markets. This page contains trade performance and investment data as well as highly innovative trade flow trends and analysis specially developed by ITC. This country page also makes use of ITC’s LegaCarta tool, which offers a country-specific analysis of the global multi-lateral rules impacting cross-border trade. You can also find information relating to the organizations working in Netherlands dedicated to assisting Dutch importers of goods and services from the developing world as well as those organisations hoping to assist developing-country exporters who wish to sell their product or service in Netherlands.

Fine Cocoa Beans, Origin Chocolate, Community Building
We bring to UK and Europe single origin and single estate cocoa beans from the Philippines, and help craft makers who use our beans to reach markets they would otherwise on their own not be able to access. We host chocolate tasting sessions to improve the public’s understanding of the fine/flavour cocoa value chain vis-à-vis international commodity trading; manage cacao fermentation protocols projects to improve flavour; and initiated the Philippines’ first origin chocolate festival.

Port of Amsterdam is the world’s largest port for cocoa bean imports. All facilities, from transhipment to manufacturing, are available in the region. Big players in the cocoa industry, like Cargill, OLAM and Dutch Cocoa are established in de Amsterdam region. Companies handling and storing cocoa or cocoa products are Vollers, CWT Commodities, Katoen Natie, Commodity Centre Nederland, SteinwegHandelsveem, HD Cotterell, ACS and DSV. All is done in one region. Each year more than 600,000 tonnes of cocoa is transhipped in the port of Amsterdam. Mostly in sea containers, but also in bulk and breakbulk. 95% percent of the cocoa beans comes from Ivory Coast and Ghana, 5% from Central America.

The Company Selmi is here in fantastic Amsterdam in this fantastic building to show to you all the flexibility, speed and quality we can offer to our clients in making chocolate from the raw bean. Selmi is the absolute proven marketleader in their production segment where we put training at the highest service level. Therefore, we are here with one of our chefs to demonstrate you our machinery, but also our way of working with people and clients. Looking forward to meet you on our stand!

Tricocoa is a producer and exporter of fine & flavour cocoa beans from Venezuela. The company’s operations are based in Venezuela but we also have a commercial office in London, UK, in order to be more accessible to our European clients.

Twin is a non-profit organisation which owns a trading company. This structure allows us to combine trade, marketing, programmes and advocacy to build market systems that create better livelihoods for farming groups growing coffee, cocoa and nuts. Twin is all about connecting actors along the value chain, and facilitating meaningful, global partnerships between buyers, donors and farmer cooperatives; with a shared vision of using trade to enable sustainable and vibrant farming communities to develop and prosper.

Uncommon Cacao sources high quality, transparently traded cacao from thousands of smallholder farmers across 8 countries, including Belize and Guatemala where we work directly with farmers to produce and process high-quality cacao through our at-origin companies Maya Mountain Cacao and Cacao Verapaz. Our purpose is to build meaningful, long-term partnerships across the cacao supply chain with chocolate makers and producers, creating stability and success for all in the chain. We are focused on delivering the highest quality cacaos and provide added-value sourcing services. We keep stock of our delicious cacaos in Amsterdam and the U.S. and look forward to meeting with new and old friends as partners at Chocoa.