Yes. We focus on organic products only!

In our beginnings we also tested and worked with “conventional” beans, but now we decided to work organic only.

There are many so called conventional beans on the market, which come from small farmes and are actually produced without chemicals etc. in a traditional “agroforest” environment. However, as these farmers and cooperatives cannot afford – or are not interested in – an organic-certification, we are also not able to sell them organic. We want to offer our customers a very clear and simple product without the need to read the “small print”.

Simple answer: we are Austrians and we have other facilities for processing organic-food nearby.

The import of cocoa-beans in the EU has no customs. The import of cocoa butter and cocoa powder has customs duties.

Investing in countries of origin leads also to much higher transportation costs and consequently CO2-emissions. The infrastructure in many of those countries is also difficult and does not provide the sufficient stability for such operations.

We are a group of people with long-term experience in management and food-production. We started this project because we think the cocoa business should not be reserved for huge multi-nationals which are making extraordinary profits. Our production volume is very small compared with that industry giants, but larger than the usual “beans-to-bar” producer.

Our customers are usually mid-sized traders and chocolate-producers, who want to offer not only the standard products from those multies but carefully manufactured products with a clear and short line from the farmer to the end-consumer.

We focus on fair trades, organic production and personal relationships. We want to make profit, have a good time and want to meet nice people.