COVID-19 has had a profound effect on grindings and semi-finished products.

This, coupled with USD weakness and a shifting macroeconomic environment, has seen high levels of volatility within the cocoa market in recent months.

As the Living Income Differential goes into effect in West Africa from 1 October, two companies with industry connections and pricing knowledge are here to share recent movements and explain some of the more complex issues of cocoa pricing in the physical markets.

Join this webinar to gain:
  • An understanding of the current market fundamentals in bean and semi-finished products, including pricing information held by Mintec and McKeany Flavell.
  • Updates on the upcoming presidential election in Cote d’Ivoire and expectations for new crop and Q3 grindings.
  • An explanation of cocoa ratios and producer pricing methodology, and how COVID-19 has created a divergence in price trends, with powder rising and butter falling.
  • Detail surrounding the implementation of the LID.

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About the Speakers

1600867163-95dd86284e5fecec Andrew Moriarty
Senior Pricing Analyst, Mintec

Andrew is a Senior Pricing Analyst at Mintec where he covers a wide array of prices but is most involved in pricing and evolving speciality coffee and cocoa markets. Prior to joining Mintec, he was a commodity analyst and risk manager for many years, again with a focus on the coffee and cocoa markets and had significant involvement in buy-side hedging and speciality products.

1601291330-1ccf4131c315fac1 Jeff Rasinski
Commodity and Risk Management Consultant, McKeany Flavell

Jeffrey has worked in the chocolate and confectionery industry for the past 30 years, holding a variety of roles at Mars, Nestle, and most recently Blommer Chocolate. In addition to cocoa and chocolate, he has been involved with and managed many other commodity categories, including sugar, corn-derived sweeteners, dairy, tropical oils, tree nuts, polyols, eggs, stabilizers, and vanilla. Jeffrey has been involved in trade and agriculture policy discussions and lobbying in Washington DC; has been a regular contributor to industry publications such as Dow Jones Newswire, CNBC Reuters Business and Financial News, and The Wall Street Journal, and has been a speaker at numerous industry events.

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