Ingredients & Traceability.
My commitment
I work with luxury ingredients that are renowned in industry for their high standard. I use Cacao Barry and Valrhona chocolate: both French chocolate manufacturers that have a strong focus on not just sensory refinement, but also sustainable agricultural practice and provenance of cocoa.
Traceability is important because it means we can ensure that underpayment or even forced labour is not engaged in throughout the supply chain that links primary producers to us.
This of course means that these ingredients are significantly more expensive, but I firmly believe that chocolate should be about quality over quantity.
“Valrhona is, above all else, the story of its people. Beyond our status as a chocolate company, our strength lies in the ties we forge between producers, employees and customers. These ties, which we continue to reinforce every single day, help cocoa producers improve their livelihoods and enable our customers to unleash their creativity in an ever-more sustainable way.”
— Clémentine Alzial, Valrhona CEO
My Suppliers
Commitment to 100% sustainability
Cacao Barry sources 100% sustainable cocoa beans through the Cocoa Horizons project.
Valrhona’s contribution to Agroforestry:
Agroforestry is the practice of planting a variety of trees and plants alongside crops to create a productive, profitable & environmentally friendly land-use system. The combination of certain plant species with others creates natural feedback mechanisms that enable them all to grow better, in term improving biodiversity, soil health and crop production.
Working through close partnerships with cocoa
“At Valrhona, we work to create a fair and sustainable cocoa sector by building close, mutually beneficial relationships with our 18,208 cocoa producers. We do this by forging long-term partnerships with producer organizations who share our vision and focus on quality and traceability.”