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Cocoa crisis update: Are cocoa prices falling?

5 November 2025

The cocoa crisis has caused raw material prices to skyrocket. Harvests may be improving again – what does this mean for chocolate prices?

Dattelzucker und Datteln am Zweig.

Dates – a super fruit

24 September 2025

Dates are an energy-rich snack packed with vitamins, fibre and minerals. What else is in this fruit, which is being used for the first time in our new ‘Dark Date Sugar’ chocolate?

Cocoa –
the new gold?

17 May 2024

Why does the price of chocolate keep rising? Read our detailed report to find out and learn about the latest developments in the cocoa industry.

Stark entöltes Kakaopulver

VIVANI’s first
Demeter chocolates

25 September 2023

VIVANI goes Demeter: After more than 20 years of finest organic chocolates, we are now launching our first Demeter-certified bars...

Do bees secure
our chocolate supply?

20 May 2021

Bees are immensely important for our ecosystem. As pollinators, they ensure the maintenance of a healthy flora and are therefore of vital importance to us humans. We ask ourselves whether bees also influence the spread of the cocoa plant. The answer is sheer astounding!

DIY drink decorations with chocolate wrappers

22 April 2021

What to do with old chocolate wrappers? Too good to throw away? Then by all means read on...

From chocolate wrapper to fertile soil?

28 April 2020

They are the greenest production sites in existence: yes, we are talking about garden compost heaps. We reveal the correct way to compost and why you should always throw the packaging film from your VIVANI chocolate bar onto the compost heap…

Mystical Peru

17 October 2019

High mountains, deep ravines, ancient ruins and pulsating cities. Peru is a land of juxtapositions and colourful diversity. And this is also reflected in its cocoa farming.