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Chocolate giant Barry Callebaut taps ex-Unilever boss as CEO

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Barry Callebaut announced Hein Schumacher, former Unilever executive, as their new CEO. The company reported a 9.9% drop in cocoa product sales for Q1, below expectations. Despite leadership changes, Barry Callebaut maintains their financial outlook for the year amidst high cocoa prices and declining demand in major markets.

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The group also recorded an increase in its sales of the first fiscal quarter, with an increase of 8.9%, to 3.67 billion Swiss francs ($4.65 billion)

·Brazil
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Former Unilever CEO Hein Schumacher will lead chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut. On January 26, he will replace departing CEO Peter Feld at the...

·Netherlands
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The new CEO has notably passed by Unilever. He succeeds Peter Feld, in place since 2023. ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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In a difficult context, the world's leading supplier of the chocolate industry thanks its Managing Director with immediate effect. The quarterly results of the Zurich group show that the decline in sales volumes continuesThe news of the day has partly surprised the markets. Barry Callebaut, the world's leading supplier of cocoa and chocolate materials, has appointed Hein Schumacher, former owner of the consumer goods giant Unilever, to the posit…

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Handelszeitung broke the news in on Wednesday, January 21, 2026.
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