Ingredients Sourcing
Ingredients Sourcing
Since 2017 together with Save the Children, we work with cocoa-growing communities in Ivory Coast by helping children access education and basic healthcare, improving birth registration systems and supporting family livelihoods through training and incentives for women-led businesses.
By the end of 2025, this Save the Children program had already reached more than 48500 people, including 16000 children.
In addition to the Save the Children program, by 2025 through the initiatives implemented across our cocoa origins we contributed to renovating or building 155 schools to support children's access to education, and enrolled 4345 out of school children in bridge classes.
We source our milk from selected suppliers and we work hand in hand with some of them to implement on farm programs and financial incentives that support farmers in their efforts to reduce the climate footprint of their milk production. In January 2025 we expanded our partnership with Arla by joining their FarmAhead™ Customer Partnership programme, under which participating Arla farmers are incentivised to take sustainability related actions on their farms.
How we certify our ingredients
A part of the cocoa we buy comes as raw beans, which we process in our factories and source as physically traceable from the farm to our factory. The raw cocoa beans we buy are all certified through a mix of different standards and certifications.
For externally processed chocolate products, our suppliers may blend certified and non-certified cocoa. However, they guarantee that for the volume they deliver to us, they source a matching minimum equivalent certified cocoa volume.
100%
of our fresh liquid milk is traced to farm level
100%
cage-free hen eggs and traced to farm
98%
of our cocoa is traced to farm level
97%
of our hazelnuts are traced to farmer
