June 28, 2021
This deal expands Barry Callebaut’s specialties capabilities and enables it to cater to the growing demand of food manufacturers for customized specialty chocolate and decorations.
ECC’s integration expands Barry Callebaut’s specialized chocolate molding capabilities and enables it to provide tailor-made solutions due to ECC’s advanced in-house developed technology.
Since 1993, ECC has been manufacturing specialty chocolate ingredients. It produces a range of industrial specialty chocolate and decorations in many tastes and colours variations, including batons, curls, chunks, leaves, and shavings.
Due to its flexible production setup, it can cater to a variety of customers such as biscuit, bakery, dairy, ice-cream, confectionery, and foodservice industries.
ECC operates a chocolate factory and a warehouse in Malle, Belgium.
The acquisition will help both the companies to further broaden their market thanks to ECC’s unique know-how and its highly flexible manufacturing facility in Belgium.”
The deal is expected to complete in the coming months and comes after Barry Callebaut opened its chocolate factory in Baramati, India, in March.
The Baramati chocolate factory is its third factory in India and claimed to represent its largest investment in the country.