Cocoa - we've got you covered
To create products that delight the senses, you need to start with great raw materials. Choose from our wide range of high-quality cocoa beans and ingredients.
Brands we’re proud to call our own
Our cocoa portfolio includes both legacy brands and newer faces. All are market leaders that can meet your specific regional or global cocoa needs.
deZaan
Founded on the banks of the Zaan River in the Netherlands, deZaan has spent more than a century setting standards for cocoa ingredient excellence.
Unicao
Cocoa cakes, liquors and butters produced in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Bringing the flavors of West African cocoa to the world.
Joanes
A well-known Brazilian brand and the most traditional cocoa processor in the country, Joanes supplies cocoa ingredients to Latin American customers. Founded in 1946 in Salvador, Joanes has been a trusted cocoa ingredient brand in Brazil for generations, always certified by top food safety norms globally. Read more
Macao
Great value cocoa powders produced at our state-of-the-art milling facility in Spain using cocoa cake from the most sought-after origins.
Huysman
Huysman supplies high grade cocoa powders to North American and Asia-based customers from our facilities in Illinois and Indonesia.
Britannia
A wide range of specialty fats - including vegetable fats, and cocoa butter equivalents, improvers and substitutes.
BT Cocoa
Based just outside Jakarta, BT Cocoa uses top-quality cocoa beans to produce some of Indonesia’s best cocoa ingredients, including cocoa powder, butter and liquor.
Twenty Degrees
Building partnerships with farmers accross the world's most remote cacao growing regions to offer speciality cacao, unique flavour profiles and complete supply chain transparency.
Are you ready to try something new?
Our chefs and food scientists are always findings new ways to tantalize consumers’ taste buds. Work with us to explore exciting flavors and textures, appeal to the health-conscious market, or go natural and clean-label.
Putting Children First in Cocoa
We’re working with our customers, partners, governments and farming co-operatives to co-create solutions to bring an end to child labor.
Find out what else we’re doing to make the future of cocoa more sustainable here.
Read ofi news
ofi supports breastfeeding workplaces throughout Vietnam
According to the World Health Organization, “Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival…and women who breastfeed also have a reduced risk of breast and ovarian cancers.”1 At ofi, we want to ensure working mothers have the opportunity to continue breastfeeding when they return to work. Without having to choose between one or the other. As such, breastfeeding support is an essential part of the workforce nutrition programs we are developing.
In 2021, with support from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, ofi began the roll-out of the Workforce Nutrition Alliance’s Workforce Nutrition Scorecard to assess our workplace nutrition programs and tackle issues related to malnutrition across workplaces globally. Last year, ofi’s cashew teams in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Vietnam reviewed their collective experience and set a target which is now stated in their global sustainability strategy Cashew Trail; by 2030, “100% of ofi employees in processing facilitates have access to support related to nutrition programs”. This includes initiatives across four pillars: healthy food at work, nutrition education, nutrition-focused and breastfeeding support, and resources for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers”.
In Vietnam, where less than one quarter of infants aged 0 to 5 months are exclusively breastfed2, our Nuts teams launched an initiative last year focused on improving conditions for breastfeeding. All 11 of our Nuts processing facilities have been equipped with private, dedicated lactation rooms with milk pumps and freezer storage.
Since then, the initiative has grown and the team is now partnering with NGO and subject-matter experts Alive & Thrive, on a comprehensive workplace lactation program. In the first year, activities will support over 2,500 female employees and their families especially the pregnant and breastfeeding mothers with counseling sessions, sensitization and education opportunities, expert assistance, and workshops.
The Alive & Thrive team is currently collecting baseline data and will conduct an assessment in 2023 to assess the program’s impact over the next 3 years. Among the many anticipated benefits, the program is expected to improve health outcomes for both mother and child, increase knowledge and uptake of breastfeeding best practices, improve employee retention, reduce absenteeism, and increase overall employee satisfaction.
1 https://www.who.int/health-topics/breastfeeding
2 https://globalnutritionreport.org/resources/nutrition-profiles/asia/south-eastern-asia/viet-nam/
ofi outlines sustainability focus at new Tokoroa plant
- Plant construction on track as new senior team member joins in key sustainability role.
ofi (olam food ingredients) today announced a range of actions to support its sustainability goals across its New Zealand operations, including building its sustainability team and enhancing a sustainably minded approach at its plant.
Plant construction is progressing well, and the plant remains on track for opening at the start of the 2023 season.
ofi’s nuts team recognized for industry excellence and innovation at INC Congress
ofi’s nuts team was awarded the Corporate Golden Nut Award, by the International Nut and Dried Fruit
Council (INC) Congress. The Golden Nut Award is the top international recognition of excellence in the nuts industry. The team also received the Innovation Award for Cashew Nut Oil Dipping Sauces & Dressings, which use minimally processed cashew oil to address consumer interest in the plant-based market.
