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...The commodity’s price reached a 12-year high this year as disease and drought resulting from the El Niño weather pattern hit cacao crops in Ghana and Ivory Coast....
...from chocolate to soap....
...Mondelez, the maker of Cadbury chocolates and Oreo cookies, reiterated its expectations for organic revenue, which strips out the impact of acquisitions and divestitures, to increase by between 2 per cent...
...The centre of Bariloche, a town of about 115,000 inhabitants, trades on a kitschy, ersatz-Alpine vibe (think half-timbered shopping streets and cafés selling hot chocolate)....
...The show, on the El Rey network of Hollywood director Robert Rodriguez, has attracted up to 40,000 viewers a week and is said to be popular among second-generation Latinos living in the US....
...It has moved into English-language programming with Fusion, a news and lifestyle cable channel and website aimed at multicultural millennials, which it owns with Walt Disney, and El Rey, a cable network...
..., El Deafo is refreshingly unsentimental and lacking in self-pity....
...Rey....
...● €224,000 A one-bed pied-à-terre in the bohemian El Borne area, walking distance from the beach. Contact Lucas Fox www.lucasfox.com, tel: +34 933 562 989...
...Mohamed El-Erian, Chief executive and co-chief investment officer of Pimco Over the years, I have found Thomas Friedman’s writings to be insightful and influential....
...The heroes of the story have already been asked to endorse chocolate bars, beer and a sex-aid vitamin pill....
...Its meals division saw sales decline 2 per cent, as growth in meal-preparation brands such as Hamburger Helper and El Paso Mexican foods was offset by weak sales of its Progresso soup, which reflected broader...
...Traders said chocolate manufacturers had yet to cover their needs for next year....
...Traders also said the El Niño weather phenomenon could hit supplies from Indonesia, the world’s third-largest producer, and Ecuador, the seventh-largest....
...But in this area, it is Waitrose that has taken the chocolate revolution to heart, with many branches stocking up to a dozen top brands such as El Rey, Duchy Originals and Prestat, as well as Valrhona....
...They are merely easier for buyers to swallow, especially from the El Dorado land of private equity....
...During a recent visit to a road-show of Venezuelan goods in Havana, Chávez took Castro to see a stall displaying the luxurious, dark chocolate produced by Chocolates El Rey, a Venezuelan company....
...“Venezuelan cocoa is the best in the world,” says Mr Guevara, who is also vice-president of Chocolates El Rey, which processes local cocoa and exports about 300 tonnes of chocolate a year to the US, Europe...
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