Chocolate production faces bleak outlook in 2025. Cocoa grindings in Europe and Asia dropped significantly in the final quarter of 2024, signaling growing struggles for chocolate makers facing record prices and shrinking inventories. Bean processing fell 5.4% in Europe and 0.5% in Asia compared to the same period last year. This marks the lowest fourth-quarter grindings since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the industry.

Cocoa grindings hit 4 year low in Europe, Asia

Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly-sensitive cocoa bean grows and so now companies are researching other ways to grow cocoa or develop cocoa substitutes.

Climate change threatens chocolate supplies

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