chocolate industry
Candy manufacturing sector
The chocolate industry encompasses all commercial activity involved in producing chocolate—from cacao farming and bean processing to manufacturing candy bars, cocoa powder, and confections.
The term often appears in discussions of labor practices, since cacao cultivation has been linked to child labor and exploitative conditions: The chocolate industry has faced pressure to address its supply chain problems.
- conchingChocolate aeration and grinding
- cocoa butterEdible fat from cacao
- child laborMinors performing paid work
- temperingControlled heating and cooling
- wholesale marketsBulk-selling commercial venues
agroforestry · shade-grown · Nestlé · mass production · West Africa · export regulations · harvest cycles · organic farming · ethical consumption · bean-to-bar · international trade agreements · plantation · truffles · ganache · pest management · cacao · cocoa farming · dark
- European Economieseconomic growth, economic reform, market economy, economic miracle, economic integration
- Swiss HistoryCongress of Vienna, cantons, Bern, Zurich, Basel
- SwitzerlandBern, Geneva, Zurich, Basel, Lausanne
chocolate industrydairy industry
Farming and processing milk products
cotton industry · dairy farming · meat industry · fishing industry · coffee industry
chocolate industryethical sourcing
Procurement respecting people and planet
cooperative farming · direct trade · sustainable agriculture · worker cooperatives
chocolate industrygrain milling
Pulverizing cereals mechanically