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Cocoa Processing Company
Public limited company
Traded as GSE: CPC
Industry Manufacturing
Founded 27 November 1981; 43 years ago (1981-11-27)
Headquarters
Cocoa Processing Company,
Heavy Industrial Area, Tema,
Greater Accra, Ghana
Key people
Jacob S. Arthur (Chairman)
Richard Amarh Tetteh (CEO)
Products Cocoa Beans

The Cocoa Processing Company Limited is a company from Ghana that turns cocoa beans into yummy chocolate products! It started in 1981. This company is so big that its shares are traded on the Ghana Stock Exchange, which is like a big marketplace where people can buy and sell parts of companies.

Delicious Products

The Cocoa Processing Company makes many tasty treats from cocoa. Their products are sold under the brand name Golden Tree.

Chocolate Bars and Spreads

They create different kinds of chocolate bars, like:

  • Tetteh Quarshie Bar (also known as TQ Bar)
  • Kingsbite
  • Oranco Bar
  • Akuafo Bar
  • Portem Pride
  • Portem Nut
  • Coffeechoc

They also make:

  • Choco Delight, which is a yummy chocolate spread.
  • Pebbles, which are groundnuts (peanuts) covered in chocolate.

Cocoa Powder and Drinks

The company also produces:

  • Royal Natural Cocoa Powder, which you can use for baking or making hot cocoa.
  • Alltime, an instant drinking chocolate.
  • Vitaco, another instant drinking chocolate.

Awards for Quality

The company's products have won many awards both in Ghana and around the world for their great taste and quality. For example, in 2002, nine of their products were entered into the World Quality Selections by an organization called Monde Selection. Eight of these products, including most of their chocolate bars and Alltime, won a Gold Quality Award! Vitaco also won a Silver Quality Award. This shows how good their chocolate really is!

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