Local confectioneries switching up business models amid global cocoa shortage

Local small confectioneries in Singapore are switching up their business models to offer experiential services like chocolate-making workshops, instead of just selling chocolates. These small players are facing increasing pressure on their profit margins, amid skyrocketing prices in the cocoa market. Cocoa supplies from the world's two leading producers -- Ghana and Ivory Coast -- are drying up, thanks to climate change and disease outbreaks. CNA's Kate Low reports.

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Love seeing innovative products from our local creators! 🇸🇬 Supporting homegrown businesses is a joy.

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Excuses. Like every other food suppliers

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You should try chocolates in India.
Tastes like mud.
Even cadburys and nestle chocolates sold in India taste like cardboard.

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BYE BYE.....COCOA🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@HoneyLemon27]

So many Indian chocolate companies in SG?!

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Import more cocoa from India. Kerala cocoa is best in world. High Butter and best permentation good caulty

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Wow! S'poreans are very rich indeed, thanks to the PAP govt for bringing them wealth by means of high-paying jobs. ❤❤

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Import More Cocoa from India

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This concern went beyond having a roof over one’s head. Not having a place also lends uncertainty about how independent one truly is, and may also lead to delays in deciding on whether one should start a family Jamus Lim

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The bottom line is this: housing, unlike many other purchases, is much more essential to one’s quality of life. With limited affordable alternatives, high HDB prices threaten this quality of life.”

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Import more Cocoa from India