Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Cargill to set up cocoa grinding plant in Indonesia

From BT, Tues 22 Sep 2011, p11.

Cargill plans to spend U$143m setting up a 65-70,000 tonnes/yr cocoa grinding plant in June 2013.

Indonesia has a 10% export tax on cocoa beans to ensure domestic raw-material supply. Tax allowances also given for the plant.