Cocoa for Ritter Sport chocolate 100% traceable

28-Nov-2022 - Germany

Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG has been sourcing only certified sustainable cocoa for its entire Ritter Sport range since 2018. Now the family-owned company is going one step further and not only achieving the Segregated[1] certification level, but can even trace all cocoa for Ritter Sport back to the producer organization.

"Transparent supply chains are a prerequisite for our cocoa programs to have a positive impact on the social, economic and ecological conditions in cocoa farming," explains Giovanni Schiavo, Head of Cocoa Purchasing at Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG. Traceability back to the producer organization makes it possible to develop measures tailored to local needs and implement them together with our partners."

In the meantime, Ritter has established programs in all countries from which the company sources cocoa. For example, in the West African country of Ghana, which, along with its neighbor Côte d'Ivoire, is considered one of the most important cocoa-growing countries. The partnership with the Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA), a producer organization in the southwest of the country, identified a lack of diversification of income sources and local climate change impacts exacerbated by deforestation, among other key challenges. The cocoa program there therefore focuses on these two issues. For example, more than 35,000 shade tree seedlings have been distributed to farmers in the last two years.

The principle of partnerships and the targeted promotion of sustainable cocoa cultivation is a tradition at Ritter. The beginnings of the first of the now six programs go back more than 30 years.

[1] Certified under Rainforest Alliance Cocoa Program or Fairtrade Cocoa Program

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