US EditionChocolate Prices High Before Christmas Despite Cocoa Fall
- Cocoa prices dropped sharply in 2025, with New York prices around $6,000 per tonne, a decrease from record highs in 2024 of $12,000 per tonne according to Rabobank analyst Oran van Dort.
- Despite the fall in cocoa prices, chocolate prices are rising due to high demand ahead of the holiday season as noted by Saxo Bank analyst Ole Hansen.
- Some UK snack brands, such as McVitie's, have changed products to 'chocolate flavour' instead of chocolate due to high cocoa prices, highlighting the impact on product formulations as reported by Saxo Bank analyst Ole Hansen.
- Chocolate brands have responded to high raw material costs with price increases and reductions in cocoa content, as noted by Saxo Bank analyst Ole Hansen.
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The ICI franceinfo 2025 Christmas basket stands at 155.30 euros, a slight decrease for the second consecutive year. The most notable increase concerns the box of chocolates, which increases by 22% in a year, according to a study in partnership with NielsenIQ unveiled on Thursday.
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Chocolate prices high before Christmas despite cocoa fall
After soaring for nearly two years, cocoa prices dropped sharply in 2025. However, chocolate, in demand ahead of the festive holiday season, has seen prices rise.
Cocoa Prices Fall Sharply as The Festive Season Approaches
Paris, 11 December 2025 – The fall in cocoa prices has accelerated, with a 45% drop since the beginning of the year. This decline in prices began in January. Key figures : 45% = fall in cocoa prices since January 2025 $5,000 = current price of a ton of cocoa 60% = share of Ivory Coast […]
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Despite the fall in cocoa prices, consumers will not see a fall in chocolate prices for Christmas holidays.
After having skyrocketed for two years, cocoa prices have fallen sharply this year, but without affecting chocolate prices a few days before the end of the year. Explanations. Ivory Coast and Ghana are the main suppliers of cabosses, the fruits of cocoa, from which are extracted the beans ...
Its latest analysis of the cocoa market shows that the price is currently around $5,000 per tonne, representing a 45 % drop from last January and more than 50 % in the last year. The company has linked the price drop to the optimistic harvest forecasts in Côte d’Ivoire and the end of the speculation that had boosted the rise in 2024, together with the remission of the effects of the El Niño weather phenomenon and the virus of the type 1 swelling…
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