date:Jun 15, 2012
Callebaut has entered a 10-year chocolate supply agreement with Morinaga, to provide 16,000 tonnes per year.
The deal renews and extends an earlier 10-year agreement signed in 2008 to supply 9,000 tonnes.
Plant closure and new production site
Under the partnership, Barry Callebaut will move production from its factory in Amagasaki to a newly built site in Takasaki, 100km north of Tokyo, in a 15.4m ($19.4m) investment over the next year.
In 2010, Morinaga announced that it would focus part of