Olam Cocoa marked the opening of its latest Cocoa Innovation Centre (CIC) in Willowbrook, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. The new facility will provide important innovation capabilities to support Olam Cocoa’s North American customers. It is one of six globally centres, along with sites in Brazil, Netherlands, Spain, Singapore and UK. The CIC will assist customers in the refinement and reformulation of existing recipes and aid in the development of new products across such diverse application categories.

In addition, Olam Cocoa presented the new branding look of its portfolio of cocoa product brands, deZaan, Unicao, Macao, and Joanes, as well as a completely new cocoa product brand for the North American and Asia Pacific markets, Huysman. As a region-specific brand born out of the heritage of deZaan, starting in Q3 2017, Huysman will offer a focused selection of value driven, best-in-class cocoa powders to these markets.