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INTERVIEWWITH THE CHAIRMAN AND THE CEO<br />
BarryCallebaut<br />
Annual Report2010/11<br />
How did your Product Groups develop?<br />
JBS Our Food Manufacturers Products business showed good growth, including<br />
specifically good results in specialty products and fillings. Some of our emerging<br />
markets in various Regions performed at double-digit growth rates.The Gourmet<br />
&Specialties Products business achieved strong growth in all segments throughout<br />
the year,especially in Asia-Pacific and Europe.Our global Gourmet brands Cacao<br />
Barry ® and Callebaut ® as well as the various local brands contributed to the overall<br />
volume growth. TheGlobal Sourcing &Cocoa Products business reported doubledigit<br />
growth driven by the strong demand for cocoa powder and the sales of cocoa<br />
products to strategic customers.<br />
“The Gourmet & Specialties Products business<br />
achieved strong growth in all segments throughout<br />
the year, especially in Asia-Pacific and Europe.<br />
Our two global Gourmet brands Cacao Barry ® and<br />
Callebaut ® as well as the various local brands contributed<br />
to the overall volume growth.”<br />
Juergen Steinemann, Chief Executive Officer<br />
In September 2011, Barry Callebaut completed the sale of its European<br />
Consumer Products business to the Belgian Baronie Group. Are you now focusing<br />
entirely on business-to-business?<br />
AJ The sale will enable us to focus on our core business and is fully in line with earlier<br />
announcements as well as with our strategy.<br />
JBS We believe that we found avery good new home for our European Consumer<br />
Products business and our former colleagues. Additionally, they became an outsourcing<br />
partner through along-term supply agreement.We supply the new owners<br />
with liquid chocolate as well as with cocoa beans and semi-finished products.<br />
Were you able to secure other outsourcing deals?<br />
AJ At the very beginning of the fiscal year,weannounced the signing of along-term<br />
global master product agreement with Kraft Foods.The additional volumes will be<br />
built up gradually over aperiod of three years.<br />
JBS We also expanded our supply agreement with Hershey.Inour eyes,wecould not<br />
get anicer compliment after securing our first outsourcing volumes with Hershey<br />
in 2007. We also closed a new outsourcing agreement with Chocolates Turín<br />
in Mexico, including the acquisition of aproduction facility in Toluca, further<br />
enhancing our presence in the promising Mexican market.<br />
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