Chocolate Scorecard 2024

Ritter Sport second overall and category winner

22-Mar-2024 - Every year, the Australian initiative Be Slavery Free evaluates the sustainable cocoa sourcing of the most important international chocolate companies in its independent Chocolate Scorecard, which is published shortly before Easter. This year, a "Good Egg Award" for the best sustainability ...

Sustainable growth - investments in energy and raw material procurement secure the future

26-Jan-2024 - Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG records slight volume and turnover growth for 2023. Turnover will increase by five percent to 565 million euros (2022: 538 million euros). The family-owned company is thus continuing the positive development of recent years in a challenging market environment. While ...

Ritter Sport: 'Turbulent year' and slight growth

"The result doesn't give me a headache, but I'm not jumping for joy either"

08-Jan-2024 - (dpa-AFX) Chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport reported slight growth in 2023 despite difficult conditions. "2023 was a turbulent year," Managing Director Andreas Ronken told Deutsche Presse-Agentur. Nevertheless, the company from Waldenbuch (Böblingen district) will record slight sales growth at ...

Ritter Sport Vegan with new variety Crispy Cookie

If you like crunch, you'll love this novelty: Starting in January, Ritter Sport is launching Crispy Cookie, a new vegan variety.

01-Nov-2023 - Just in time for Veganuary 2024, Ritter Sport surprises fans of its vegan range with the new Crispy Cookie. The vegan 100 gram square with chocolate cookie pieces and cornflakes is the perfect combination for everyone who loves crunch in their chocolate. With the Crispy Cookie, the Swabian ...

Cocoa for Ritter Sport chocolate 100% traceable

28-Nov-2022 - Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG has been sourcing only certified sustainable cocoa for its entire Ritter Sport range since 2018. Now the family-owned company is going one step further and not only achieving the Segregated[1] certification level, but can even trace all cocoa for Ritter Sport back to ...

Ritter Sport continues to do business in Russia

31-Mar-2022 - Chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport continues to supply chocolate to Russia despite the war in Ukraine.The company did not make the decision lightly, a spokesman said on Tuesday in Waldenbuch. A stop in deliveries would have the consequence that production would have to be drastically reduced, ...

Square. Practical. CO2-neutral.

Ritter Sport is a climate-neutral company

12-May-2021 - A lot of energy is needed to produce chocolate from ingredients such as cocoa, milk and sugar. Nevertheless, Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG has achieved another of its key sustainability goals and is now a climate-neutral company. A triad describes the path to climate neutrality that the family-owned ...

Chocolate manufacturer Ritter: Organic has failed with us

03-May-2021 - The chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport does not see the sale of organic chocolates as an attractive business model. Organic has "failed" at Ritter Sport, Alfred Theodor Ritter, grandson of the company founder and current head of the powerful company advisory board, told "Der Spiegel". For years, ...

Confusion about Ritter Sport product: chocolate or not?

In the battle for the sovereignty of interpretation, the smallest details are now at stake between Ritter Sport and several authorities.

08-Feb-2021 - Can a chocolate without conventional sugar actually be called chocolate? Manufacturer Ritter Sport has caused irritation with its announcement that it intends to launch a chocolate on the market that may not formally be called such in Germany. After the Federal Ministry of Nutrition, the Ministry ...

Ritter Sport launches "chocolate" that may not be called chocolate

"Absurd food law"

02-Feb-2021 - The German family-owned company Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG is launching a new product on the chocolate bar market. The product is called "Cacao y Nada" and for the first time consists of 100 percent cocoa. Natural cocoa juice is used for sweetening, which Ritter obtains in an innovative process ...