April 29, 2021
Peter Boone will be the new CEO of chocolate ingredients provider Barry Callebaut effective Sept. 1, he will replace Antoine de Saint-Affrique, who has led the company since 2015 and will be nominated for election to the company’s board when he steps down.
Boone first joined Barry Callebaut in 2012 as chief innovation officer, and had previously worked at Unilever.
As the global chocolate industry faces challenges, Barry Callebaut has tapped a new leader who is not only intimately familiar with the company and its role in the industry, but who has also played a role in some of its biggest innovation, environmental and social responsibility initiatives.
Boone was one of the drivers behind Forever Chocolate — Barry Callebaut’s commitment to eliminate poverty and child labor from its supply chain, become carbon and forest positive and use 100% sustainable ingredients by 2025.
Barry Callebaut, one of the world’s top manufacturers of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products have been working to grow sales and set high standards for innovation and environmental and social responsibility.
Since establishing Forever Chocolate, Barry Callebaut has mapped a total of 181,861 of its cacao farms and collected data to establish who the farmers are and help them increase efficiency, yields and income. The company’s global gourmet chocolate brands have a 100% sustainable cocoa supply chain and 61% of the non-cocoa ingredients the company uses are from sustainable sources.
Barry Callebaut’s sales revenue growth for the Switzerland-based company was flat compared with a year prior. The company reported challenges on several fronts, including increases in sugar prices and restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.