Global cocoa deficit to lift prices
Business Recorder (blog)
Demand for cocoa, the key ingredient in chocolate, is widely expected to surpass supply in the current crop year, helping prices to recover some of the ground lost last year, a Reuters poll of 20 analysts and dealers showed. Output from the Ivory Coast ...

Battling Child Labor in Cocoa and Cotton Fields
NL-Aid
Two massive consumer industries that continuously profit off the backs of child laborers are the cocoa/chocolate, and cotton/garment industries. Rather than learning and dreaming of a brighter future in classrooms where they belong, thousands of ...
EU Parliament to fight child labour in cocoa plantations in AfricaAfrican Manager

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Cocoa Beach Surf and Fishing Report for Saturday February 4, 2012
Brevard Times
COCOA BEACH, Fla. -- As of 5:00 am on Saturday February 4, 2012, jelly fish were not present throughout Cocoa Beach from Coconuts on the Beach northward to Jetty Park in Cape Canaveral as a result of westerly winds over the last week pushing the ...

Cocoa Beach spring break madness mollified
Florida Today
Cocoa Beach officials are looking for ways to control spring break partying, especially off Minutemen Causeway. / Craig Rubadoux/FLORIDA TODAY COCOA BEACH — Hoping to stem the tide of alcohol-fueled disorderly beachgoers, a city commissioner is ...
Cocoa Beach proposal targets rowdy beachgoers, not boozeWKMG Orlando
Cocoa Beach To Consider Banning Alcohol on Beaches TonightBrevard Times
Proposed Alcohol Ban On Brevard Beach Causing OutrageWESH Orlando

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US Jobs Jump Lifts Crude Oil, Soybean, Cocoa
Investor's Business Daily
Agricultural markets such as soybeans and cocoa also rose sharply due to tighter supply forecasts. Gold bucked the trend, falling for the first time in four sessions, as the dollar strengthened in response to the larger-than-expected rise in US ...

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SOFTS-US jobs data stokes wide market advance
Reuters
COFFEE, COCOA UP AS WELL Coffee and cocoa futures climbed with sugar, drawing inspiration from the US jobs data. Robusta coffee rebounded after hitting a three-week low the previous session as dealers kept an eye on slow exports from top producer ...
The Soft Spot(49)Inside Futures
SOFTS-Sugar, coffee firm ahead of US jobs dataReuters Africa

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Cocoa Use to Exceed Supply by 94000 Tons, Marex Spectron Says
BusinessWeek
3 (Bloomberg) -- Cocoa demand will exceed supplies by 94000 metric tons in the 2011-12 season started in October, reversing a previous forecast for a surplus of 32000 tons, Marex Spectron Group said. Global cocoa production will be 3.867 million tons, ...
Europe cash cocoa: Eyes on Ivory Coast auctionsReuters
Marex sees world 2011/12 cocoa deficit of 94000 TReuters Africa

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New Hershey program to benefit cocoa farmers
York Daily Record
By TIM MEKEEL, Business Editor The Hershey Co. said Monday that it will spend $10 million over five years in West Africa to improve the productivity and living conditions of cocoa farmers. The initiative is expected to directly benefit 750000 cocoa ...
Raising the Bar on Cocoa SourcingSupermarket News (blog)
Hershey to invest $10 million in Ivory CoastBusinessWeek
Hershey pledges $10 million to improve West African cocoa farming, fight child ...CNN (blog)

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Patron XO Cafe Dark Cocoa is for lovers of chocolate and tequila
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com (blog)
With XO Cafe Dark Cocoa, the company adds a new product to its line of tequilas and liqueurs. Sipped by itself, the drink is a sweet symphony. The flavor and aroma of silver tequila play first violin, leading the way for notes of fine coffee and ...
Patron XO Cafe Dark Cocoa ReviewDrink Spirits (blog)

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SOFTS-Cocoa eases, sugar dips to two-week low
Reuters
Low participation in Ivorian forward-sales auction * Sugar traders focused on global surplus * Macquarie sees 2012/13 c/s Brazil cane output 520 mln T (Adds trade comment) By David Brough LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Cocoa futures on ICE eased on ...
Cocoa traders shun Ivory Coast auctionFinancial Times
Ivorian cocoa prices rise as farmers see shortagesReuters Africa
Cocoa and sugar fallBusiness Recorder (blog)
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