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Singapore has been home to Olam's headquarters since 1996, when the organisation moved from London, UK and was incorporated as Olam International Ltd.

Now the holding company for our subsidiaries worldwide, and listed on the Main Board of The Singapore Exchange, most of our global businesses and corporate functions operate out of our headquarters at Marina One where we employ more than 500 people.

Olam Cocoa has a processing facility in Jurong, Singapore. We produce premium deZaan cocoa powders, butters and masses, as well as Huysman value cocoa powders for the Asia Pacific markets from this site, and operate a large innovation centre working directly with customers to develop tailored ingredients.

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Cocoa

Innovation in Cocoa

Asia is experiencing a dramatic and accelerating revolution in the landscape of new product launch and innovation in cocoa category.

Of all the evolving retail landscapes and consumer insights, we innovate to tap into the rapid growth of well-being, to cater to the time compression and increasing urbanisation life style, as well as the digital revolution and how consumers interact with food nowadays.

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Meet the Team

We have over 500 employees across two locations. Many of our corporate functions such as Legal, Internal Comms, Finance and HR are based in Singapore, as well as many of our global businesses.

Sunny Verghese Co-Founder and Group CEO

News, Views and Insights

Press release

19^th Jan, 2021

Twenty Degrees launch brings specialty cacao to craft chocolate makers

London Today marks the launch of Twenty Degrees, a new specialty cacao business sourcing premium quality cacao beans from around the world. The new venture is backed by Olam Cocoa, one of the world’s leading suppliers of cocoa beans and cocoa ingredients. The premium chocolate market has seen significant growth in recent years as consumers become more interested in the provenance of their food and increasingly seek out high quality, artisanal products with a unique flavour and story. Twenty Degrees – named for the cacao belt which ranges twenty degrees north and south of the equator – is responding by sourcing premium quality cacao beans from ten unique regions, each hand-picked for their distinctive flavour and sensory profile. The business will unlock opportunities for farmers by bringing single origin cacao beans to market that are either too specialist or too remote to be sold to mainstream manufacturers. From cacao grown in the highland Simbu region of Papua New Guinea, to bean

News

21^st Aug, 2020

Olam Coffee partners with customers to support vulnerable farmers through COVID-19

In May, Olam Coffee launched a COVID-19 Global Intervention Plan to strengthen its ongoing relief efforts for the world’s worst-affected coffee farming communities. Securing skilled labour, earning a living and affording usual food and new hygiene supplies are the main challenges being faced by coffee farmers as a result of lockdowns and movement restrictions. All of which are compounding the pre-existing vulnerability of coffee farmers to low prices and climate shocks. Donations from customers and partners, together with Olam’s contributions, have reached US$449,670 to date, funding food and hygiene packages for over 20,000 coffee households across 12 countries, where farmers are navigating the complexities of harvesting during a pandemic. Vivek Verma, Managing Director and CEO, Olam Coffee, said, “We are extremely grateful for the generous support from our customers, namely Lavazza, Nespresso, Caffé Borbone, JM Smuckers, Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee, Strauss, Melitta a

Blog

15^th Mar, 2021

Fighting COVID-19 fake news in Nigeria

Whoever and wherever you are, it’s unlikely you were expecting 2020 unfold as it did. But imagine for a moment that you’re a Nigerian smallholder. Your living conditions are basic. Your home has no electricity, you get water from the river and the nearest hospital is several hours drive away. One minute you’re thinking about seeds, fertiliser, whether you’ll break even this season. The next, you’re staring down the barrel of a global pandemic. For cocoa farmers in Africa’s most populous nation, reactions to the crisis veer from shock to complete disbelief. When COVID-19 hit, many public health experts feared the worst for sub-Saharan Africa. Certainly implementing testing and control measures across Nigeria’s vast 36 states posed a tall order. Last April the New York Times, drawing on International Rescue Committee and other data, estimated Nigeria had a total of 169 ventilatorsi (used to help seriously ill patients breathe). That’s one per 1.27 million people. Compare that to on