2024-06-11 11:29:00
Mozartkugeln are an Austrian export hit. One producer is Salzburg Schokolade. The corporate was struggling for a very long time and now it has to shut down.
The Austrian confectionery producer Salzburg Schokolade has to shut. Regardless of a rescue operation initiated after insolvency proceedings, it’s now clear that the corporate can not be saved, studies the “Salzburger Nachrichten”.
Based on the report, 65 staff are affected by the closure. Particularly, the manufacturing facility in Grödig, south of Salzburg, should stop manufacturing on the finish of the yr. Amongst different issues, Mirabell’s “Echte Salzburger Mozartkugel” is produced there. Salzburg Schokolade has been round since 1897.
The producer filed for chapter in November 2021, and in February 2022 the Kex Confectionary group from Romania took over. However regardless of the group’s good fame for previous rescue operations, the try was unsuccessful. In December 2022, a part of the manufacturing was shut down and 25 staff had been laid off. The corporate cited sharply elevated prices for uncooked supplies, packaging supplies, transport and power as causes. You may learn extra in regards to the chapter right here.
The continued excessive costs for uncooked supplies will now most likely result in the ultimate finish of Salzburg Chocolate. The state of affairs on the world market is especially tough for cocoa. Because of monocultures, fungal illnesses, an excessive amount of or too little rain within the rising areas, provide has decreased, whereas on the identical time costs on the cocoa change have exploded. Learn extra about this right here.
60 % of worldwide cocoa manufacturing is within the Ivory Coast and Ghana. Local weather change is having a big influence on cultivation. Based on the environmental group WWF, extra frequent excessive climate occasions, resembling lengthy durations of drought, heavy rain and flooding, have broken the standard of cocoa, diminished yields or utterly destroyed harvests.
Import costs for cocoa beans and cocoa bean fragments in January 2024 exceeded the extent of the identical month final yr by 73.4 %, the Federal Statistical Workplace introduced in March. The import of cocoa mass and cocoa butter was due to this fact 49.4 % costlier in that month than a yr earlier.