Company portrait

 
With annual sales of about CHF 4.6 billion (EUR 3.6 billion/USD 5.0 billion) for fiscal year 2010/11, Zurich-based Barry Callebaut is the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate – from the cocoa bean to the finished chocolate product. Barry Callebaut is present in 27 countries, operates around 40 production facilities and employs a diverse and dedicated workforce of about 6,000 people. Barry Callebaut serves the entire food industry focusing on industrial food manufacturers, artisans and professional users of chocolate (such as chocolatiers, pastry chefs or bakers), the latter with its two global brands Callebaut® and Cacao Barry®. Barry Callebaut is the global leader in cocoa and chocolate innovations and provides a comprehensive range of services in the fields of product development, processing, training and marketing. Cost leadership is another important reason why global as well as local food manufacturers work together with Barry Callebaut. Through its broad range of sustainability initiatives and research activities, the company works with farmers, farmer organizations and other partners to help ensure future supplies of cocoa and improve farmer livelihoods.

Innovation as a principle

Barry Callebaut is the reference for innovation in the cocoa and chocolate market. Dedicated R&D teams around the world focus on two different areas: Fundamental research into preserving the health properties of the cocoa bean and pro-active R&D leading to cutting-edge cocoa and chocolate products.The applied R&D teams, on the other hand, support customers to improve their products and recipes as well as their production processes on their own production lines. In total, Barry Callebaut manages about 2,000 R&D projects, runs almost 7,600 trials and conducts more than 400 technical visits with its customers every year. Nearly three quarters of our sales volume are based on innovations developed in the last 5 years: newly developed products and optimized recipes. With 50% success rate, our Research & Development projects are extremely efficient. The figures show: Innovation is crucial at Barry Callebaut in every respect.   

Working@Barry Callebaut

Barry Callebaut employees are part of a culture built on passion and expertise. Our innovative power makes us the business partner of choice for the entire food industry.

Therefore we are always looking for people with great ideas for anticipating our customers’ needs and turning them into great products and services. Our strength comes from the passion and expertise of our people, for whom we strive to create an environment where learning is ongoing, entrepreneurship is encouraged and creativity can flourish.

We seek to apply our constantly evolving expertise to helping our customers grow their businesses, and we are passionate about creating and bringing to market, new and healthy products.

Our core values are Customer Focus, Passion, Entrepreneurship, Team Spirit and Integrity, and we have a set of corresponding behaviors for each of them. These values and how they are lived in our organization are monitored and evaluated at both Group level and as part of individual employee performance appraisals.