Singapore

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.

We take an active role in the community in Singapore.

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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

19^th Jan, 2021

Press release

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

16^th Jul, 2020

News

Disclosure of cooperative suppliers in Côte d’Ivoire

In October 2019 we launched Cocoa Compass, our sustainability ambition for the future of cocoa. With milestones for action in 2020 and 2024, it sets concrete goals for 2030 across our global, direct cocoa supply chain. These goals will help us achieve our vision of an environmentally positive, professionalised and quality focused cocoa supply chain comprising farmers earning a living income and whose children have access to education.

1^st Dec, 2020

Blog

A Sustainable, Equitable Food System Needs to be Nourished at the Source

COVID-19 has exposed many of the vulnerabilities in our food system, one of which is just how reliant global supply chains are on people’s well-being at every step of the journey. The small-scale farmers in emerging markets who produce much of the world’s food ingredients, live in countries that face high rates of malnutrition, with many farming households unable to eat healthily themselves. The strong link between health and agricultural productivity is one of the reasons nutrition has moved up the sustainability agenda for Olam. Malnutrition is said to cost the private sector as much as $850 billion a year in lost productivity, according to a recent Chatham House reporti, with much of this borne by the ag sector given the labour intensity of farming. So as a business that plans to run efficiently for the next 30, 50 years and beyond, helping to reduce malnutrition in the communities where we operate is actually a down payment on future productivity. Financial incentive aside,

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