Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate
Gerkens® powders around the world
Gerkens® Holland
Gerkens® Holland offers customers a wide range of cocoa powders with a great choice of color and flavor combinations:
- Low fat (10-12%)
- High fat (20-22% and 22-24%)
- Lecithinated powders - for use in dry cocoa mixes.
- Customized cocoa powders
Gerkens® France
Gerkens® France offers a representative range of cocoa powders. The plant is best equipped to produce for large-scale customers requiring shipments of low fat cocoa powder (10-12%).
The French plant also is fully certified to produce organic powders.
Gerkens® Ghana
The Ghanaian cocoa bean delivers a delicate flavor, which is mild and chocolaty, providing a unique taste experience to extend and enhance the Gerkens range of powders.
Our brand new plant opened its doors in the fall of 2008. Gerkens® Ghana is currently limited to high quality single origin 10-12% cocoa powders:
- Natural
- Lightly alkalized
- Strong alkalized
Gerkens® Côte d'Ivoire
The plant is built with the most up-to-date (Dutch) technology and adheres to the same stringent quality controls and procedures deployed in all Cargill cocoa plants. It produces and exports a selected number of high quality single origin 10-12% cocoa powders:
- Natural
- Lightly alkalized
- Strongly alkalized
- Dark brown
Gerkens® Brazil
Cargill's first cocoa processing plant was established in Brazil in 1980. Since then, the plant has developed from a small-sized producer into the largest and most sophisticated cocoa processor in Latin America.
The product range from Brazil consists of an impressive number of 10-12% powders:
- Natural
- Lightly alkalized
- Strongly alkalized
- Lecithinated (for the Latin American market)
- Black
Gerkens® cocoa powder will help you to clearly differentiate your products from your competitors’.