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Peter Boone will be the new CEO of chocolate ingredients provider Barry Callebaut effective Sept. 1, the company announced. Boone will replace Antoine de Saint-Affrique, who has led the company since 2015 and will be nominated for election to the company s board when he steps down.
Boone has led the Americas region of Barry Callebaut since 2017. Under his tenure, the division has grown in volumes and profits. He built Barry Callebaut s North American Specialties & Decorations businesss through the 2017 acquisition of the ingredients division of Gertrude Hawk Chocolates. Boone first joined Barry Callebaut in 2012 as chief innovation officer, and had previously worked at Unilever.
Nestlé and Mondelēz among chocolate giants facing child slavery lawsuit over supply chain practices
A human rights firm has filed a lawsuit against major chocolate companies Nestlé, Cargill, Barry Callebaut, Mars, Olam, Hershey and Mondelēz, following allegations of child slave labour in their cocoa supply chains.
Pictured: Fresh cocoa fruit. Stock image.
The class-action lawsuit, filed in Washington DC by International Rights Advocates, concerns eight individuals from Mali who claim that they were forced to work without pay on cocoa plantations on the Ivory Coast during the 2000s and 2010s.
These plantations regularly supplied the corporates named during the period specified, the plaintiffs claim, with the end-user businesses having a “dominant influence” on practices. While the end-user businesses did not own the farms in question, International Rights Advocates is aiming to convince the courts that they “knowingly profited” from illegal child labour.
Barry Callebaut is the reason for the removal.
Tony s perpetuates injustices
Tony s Chocolonely has its cocoa beans processed by the Swiss chocolate giant. That company, also the largest chocolate manufacturer worldwide, admits that its chocolate is not always 100 per cent pure , but is striving to ban all illegal labour from the production chain by 2025. Barry Callebaut publishes the progress it is making in this respect annually in its Forever Chocolate Plan.
However, for
Slave Free Chocolate the partnership is enough to remove Tony s Chocolonely from its list. Although all Tony s cocoa beans are perfectly traceable to individual farmers, and the Dutch company watches over the working conditions, Slave Free Chocolate argues that the chocolate maker contributes to the perpetuation of slave and child labour through its partnership with Barry Callebaut.