Research and Development

At Blommer Chocolate, we strive to provide our customers with the best technical and customer assistance in the industry. To accomplish this, we have strategically located our R&D teams across North America to provide region specific support for New Product Development and general Technical Services. Each of our locations are staffed with some of the most experienced professionals in the chocolate industry having advanced degrees in Food Science, Culinary Arts and Engineering, supplemented with industry training and years of hands-on experience.

Quality and Sensory

Blommer Chocolate uses customized Descriptive Analysis with a select group of panelists to evaluate chocolate products produced in our facility as well as tasting products under development. Additionally, we collaborate with our customers to customize our methodologies to meet a customer’s needs. An example would be a specialized sensory panel trained and certified to screen products for our customer so they are confident enough not to have to do their own in-house tasting.

Commodity Risk Management

In becoming the largest and oldest cocoa bean processor in North America, we’ve amassed a wealth of information along the way. Our team brings over 98 combined years of experience in the industry to advise on fundamental and technical market outlooks for cocoa, sugar, dairy, fats and oils markets.

Over 85% of the price of our products is derived from underlying commodity costs, so market analysis and commodity risk management is vital to our livelihood. We can help you apply that knowledge to your business with custom-tailored tools to help mitigate your commodity exposures.

We have the ability to create customized price risk management strategies that are tailored to the risk tolerances and objectives of our customers. We are experienced in the use of ratios, combos and offer an array of price risk management tools (component locks, options contracts, etc.) and specialize in hedging solutions.

Cocoa Sustainability

Blommer Chocolate Company is a third-generation, family-run company, and the largest cocoa processor and ingredient chocolate supplier in North America. Our company was founded in 1939, and has long been a pioneer in advancing sustainable cocoa farming.

Rainforest Alliance Certification

Rainforest Alliance Certification - Rainforest Alliance certification is built on 3 pillars of sustainability – environmental, social & economic.

Rainforest Alliance certification ensures that farms have met the comprehensive environmental, social and economic standards of the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN). The SAN standards cover ecosystem conservation, water and soil conservation, waste reduction, agrochemical reduction and wildlife protection. Further, these standards ensure that farm workers are provided with safe work conditions, good living conditions, decent wages, healthcare and access to education for their children.

Unlike Fair Trade, which focuses on the price at which products are traded, or organic, which focuses on soil health, Rainforest Alliance certification focuses on whole farm management. It empowers farmers to be better business people, to control costs, increase production, improve quality, build their own competence in trading, build workforce and community cohesion and pride, manage their precious natural resources and protect the environment.