chocolate manufacturers are to use lesser cocoa ingredients but dairy products and will continue to do so.....white chocolates taste better indeed...no worry
consumer will run away if chocolate manufacturer reduce the cocoa ingredients , taste change. Cocoa is major ingredient Chocolate with less cocoa it become candy sweet. 🤣🤣
Harimaugajah Plx look at their latest QR report , in the current aset column "Inventory " plx read the number and comparation then u will know what happen now . hehehe.
Guan Chong’s factories are still running and it is “comfortably” and “sufficiently” covered for the rest of the year, Tay said. But it’s continuously checking with suppliers to ensure deliveries, and also looking for more beans to avoid situations like contract defaults, he said.
GCB grinds beans and sell to end consumer (e.g. Hershey). Naturally, high cocoa bean prices will impact their grinding margin.
Unfortunately, cocoa prices may potentially to go higher due to combination of few factors: 1) 60% of cocoa beans came from west africa (Ghana, Ivory Coasts, Nigeria, Cameroon) 2) there has been very little planting in these countries for the last few years. The trees are very old and producing less and less. Also, old trees are sensitive to bad weather and disease. which currently impacting the production yield severely, due to bad weather and prevalent of disease. especially the disease/virus more widespread in Ghana and Ivory Coast.
Low planting also is a structural issue faced by agri farmers all over the world. Poor pay disincentives human labour to invest and involved in agriculture. 3) New regulation from EU on deforestation which means that beans that have been produced in new planted area cannot go into Europe.
Good news is, if you look at GCB balance sheet. Their inventories went up by 75% to RM2.8bil which means GCB had restocked significantly at much lower prices.
Last quarter, they did a record quarterly revenue of RM1.8bil. Highest ever revenue which means the business is growing and they were able to raise higher selling prices.
Let's look at the end consumer Hershey. In their latest 2024 outlook, the company still expects sales to grow 2-3% in 2024 which means demand still robust despite the higher prices.
End of day, weigh your own risk and reward and invest wisely. Cheers!
Nepo u telling the key point ,no cocoa factory cannot run so cannot make money ,this is why other factory is going to shut down temporary in the period . but GCB now is they have cocoa and factory keeping running ,and customer forcing to buy ingredient from them although the price is markup more higher and the price is unusual expensive.. now the business is like this ..u buy or not??if u dun buy other ppl wil buy ,or ur cake shop ,cookies factory ,chocolate drinks factory all close ..u wan close or not?hehehe
“Everybody is panicking,” Brandon Tay Hoe Lian, chief executive officer of the firm, said in an interview in Kuala Lumpur. Prices are going higher every day, but the beans are not coming, he said. “We not only have to fight for beans, we’re also paying premiums.”
THE GLOBAL SHORTFALL OF BEANS MEAN ITS STARTING TO LIMIT SALES!
IT WILL BE DOUBLE WHAMMY FOR GCB, HIGH COCOA BEAN COST AND LOWER SALES…! RECIPE FOR VERY POOR PERFORMANCE
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