Chocolate production Grows in 1st semester

After periods of decline, chocolate industries showed a positive performance in the first quarter of 2016 in relation to 2015. According to the Brazilian industry association ABICAB Chocolates, cocoa, peanuts, hard candies and derivatives-industries produced 246,400 tons from January to June 2016 1 increase of 4.3% over the same period last year, when the volume was $ 236,200 tons. "The numbers of the semester are more encouraging. We have achieved a growth of 15.6% in foreign markets. As for imports, was impacted by the retraction of the internal market, suffering a decline of 5.5%, "says the President of ABICAB, Dan Franco.