Gerkens® Holland

Gerkens® Holland offers customers a wide range of cocoa powders with a great choice of color and flavor combinations:

• Low fat (10-12%)
• High fat (20-22% and 22-24%)
• Lecithinated powders - for use in dry cocoa mixes
• Customized cocoa powders

Gerkens® France

Gerkens® France offers a representative range of cocoa powders. The plant is best equipped to produce for large-scale customers requiring regular shipments of one or two single types:

• Low fat cocoa powder (10-12%)
• High fat cocoa powders. (20-22% & 22-24%)

The French plant also is fully certified to produce organic powders.

Gerkens® Ghana

The Ghanaian cocoa bean delivers a delicate flavor, which is mild and chocolaty, providing a unique taste experience to extend and enhance the Gerkens range of powders.

Our brand new plant opened its doors in the fall of 2008. Gerkens® Ghana is currently limited to high quality 10-12% cocoa powders:

• Natural
• Lightly alkalized  
• Strong alkalized
• Ghana single origin

Gerkens® Côte d'Ivoire

The plant is equipped with the most up-to-date technology from Holland and adheres to the same stringent quality controls and procedures deployed in all Cargill cocoa plants. It produces and exports a limited number of high quality 10-12% cocoa powders:  

• Natural
• Lightly alkalized
• Strongly alkalized
• Dark brown
• Cote D’Ivoire single origin

Gerkens® Brazil

Cargill's first cocoa processing plant was established in Brazil in 1980. Since then, the plant has developed from a small-sized producer into the largest and most sophisticated cocoa processor in Latin America.

The product range from Brazil consists of an impressive number of 10-12% powders:

• Natural
• Lightly alkalized
• Strongly alkalized 
• Lecithinated cocoa powder (for the Latin American market)
• Black cocoa powder    
• Brazilian single origin