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Packaging Essentials

You invest a lot of yourselves into producing the finest chocolate you can, but how do you get people to buy it? Packaging is an important component of chocolate marketing. It carries your brand i...

Cracking and Winnowing with CocoaTown

Cocoa beans go through different steps before being transformed into chocolate and a couple of them are “cracking and winnowing.” Cracking and winnowing is the process of breaking the cocoa beans a...

Meet Denise Speck

Denise Speck was born and raised in Germany and is a graduate in sustainable entrepreneurship, an entrepreneur, a photography enthusiast, a consultant, an ever-learning student. She spent the past ...

Storytelling to Revive Trinidad & Tobago’s Cocoa Sector

"Storytelling has become an increasingly important tool to foster regenerative value for consumers and producers. In an academic research, Denise Speck analysed digital storytelling within the cont...

Special Chocopreneurs Networking Event

Networking can give new perspectives, foster strong connections, build confidence, help you market yourself and give hope and strength through shared experiences. You can also find or become a ment...

Chocolate Making Equipment: What to Know Before You Buy

Acquiring the right chocolate-making equipment for your business is an important decision and big investment whether starting out or looking to grow.How do you identify the best machine for your ne...

Keep Chocolate Cool when Shipping in Hot Climates - Q&A

Question: Do you worry about condensation from the ice pack? I have kraft paper packaging on my bars. Answer: Yes, I do. I encourage wrapping both ice packs and chocolate in kraft paper. Question: ...

Meet Beata Lerman

Dr. Beartisa (Beata) Lerman led different roles in biomedical R&D, consulting and scientific research studies in molecular genetics, biochemistry, and immunology in prestigious institutions in ...

Making Healthy Chocolate

How does the food we eat now affect our health? As consumers we can find any, often directly contradictory information on the internet, supporting any buying decision we want to indulge ourselves i...

Meet Estelle Tracy

Estelle Tracy is an award-winning food writer and chocolate sommelier based in the Philadelphia area. A French native, she discovered the bean-to-bar movement in 2015 and has been leading chocolate...