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Chocolate maker wanted

Posted in: News & New Product Press

Brad: the roaster's appreciation for fine chocolate is not absolute. The farmers and the roaster are eager to learn what the market wants and how they can respond to that demand.

Your points are important but laced with disdain for those who have been disregarded and denigrated by a century of colonialism that has kept them at the very bottom of the value chain which is where the chocolate companies want them. Quit being a snob.

I will prevail in this endeavor, resolving one obstacle at a time.

Chocolate maker wanted

Posted in: News & New Product Press

Nat: My objective is to allow the farmers themselves to ascend the value chain. Would liquor be a better stage to look for chocolatier cooperation?

Chocolate maker wanted

Posted in: News & New Product Press

My company is the marketing arm for some cocoa farming cooperatives in Nigeria which want to bring their semi-processed cocoa (cake and butter) to the US. The cooperatives are getting certified. In the meanwhile, they are traceable. Our focus is on bringing out the best flavor of the forastero bean.

Our end game is to build a BRAND andget oodles of customers in the US. Our immediate goal isto establish a liaison with a chocolate maker in the Washington, DC area (or wider) to produce limited quantities of chocolate bars from our cake and butter for our sales and marketing purposes.

Anyone interested?

updated by @Tom McDonough: 04/23/15 03:03:10PM

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Posted in: Allow Me to Introduce Myself

Jim,

Congratulations on your "Certificate of Excellence" and very nice job on your website. I like the use of donkeys. I never see donkeys in Nigeria, just motorcycles.

May I suggest you annotate your slide show? It would help it come to life.

Best,

Tom