Niche Cocoa Industry Ltd, a privately held company based in Ghana, will soon open a semi-finished and finished chocolate manufacturing facility in the USA. To this end, the company has acquired an existing factory building in Franklin/Wisconsin, where it will install cocoa processing and chocolate manufacturing facilities. The facility, planned in partnership with the Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company, a local producer of chocolates from bean to bar in Ghana, is expected to be fully operational by January 2023 and will then process around 1,200 containers of cocoa cake from Ghana into cocoa powder, cocoa liquor and finished chocolates annually.

Niche Cocoa Industry operates a cocoa processing factory in the Tema Free Zones Enclave, near Ghana’s largest container port. After considerable investment, annual capacity is 60,000 t. For some time now, the company has also been active in the market as a bean-to-bar producer with a capacity of 10,000 t/a of cocoa powder and refined chocolate products.