London Coe, the owner of Peace on Fifth who regularly sets up at 2nd Street Market in downtown Dayton, features single origin, bean to bar, ethically sourced craft chocolate from across the globe.

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are disrupting the crop, affecting both the quantity and quality of beans — and ...

ICE NY cocoa (CCH25) today is up +414 (+4.26%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) is up +242 (+3.10%). Cocoa prices today ...

ICE NY cocoa Tuesday closed up +417 (+4.29%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 closed up +261 (+3.35%). Cocoa prices rallied sharply on Tuesday on insufficient rain in West Afr ...

It will be harder to find deals on chocolate this Valentine’s Day due to years of bad growing conditions in the key cocoa-producing region of West Africa.

He packaged the sweet chocolates in lovely heart-shaped boxes adorned with Cupids and rosebuds, and marketed them around Valentine’s Day.

Hershey’s said it buys cocoa nearly a year in advance, so the cost at the store this Valentine’s Day won’t reflect today’s cocoa prices. A 1-pound bar of Hershey’s chocolate costs $14.99.

Monday closed down -304 (-3.03%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) closed down -117 (-1.48%). Cocoa prices fell sharply ...

Climate change and disease have resulted in a shortage of cocoa – and chocolate prices have surged as a result. It’s a bittersweet taste of things to come, warns James Moore ...

Shares of retail coffee chain Starbucks (SBUX) are down as the price of Arabica coffee beans hits an all-time high above $4 ...

Now is the time to buy Hershey This leaves one major problem for Hershey: cocoa prices. Cocoa is a commodity, and the supply-demand balance is out of whack right now, resulting in sky-high cocoa ...