He Left His Investment Banking Job In The US To Start A Chocolate Business In Ghana,
Meet Ghanaian Edmund Poku, Managing Director of Niche Cocoa

Meet the Ghanaian Entrepreneur who left his investment banking job in the US to start a Chocolate business in Ghana.

Ghana-based NICHE COCOA INDUSTRY LTD manufactures cocoa products and chocolate for export and the local market.

Edmund Poku is the Managing Director of Niche Cocoa.

Niche Cocoa was set up in 2007 and over the past few years has created a niche in Ghana’s chocolate industry.

Niche is a bean-to-bar producer of refined chocolate, chocolate drinks and spreads.

With an installed capacity of 60,000 metric tonnes per year, it is the largest fully integrated cocoa processor in Ghana.

In 2011, the brand name was changed from CPI to Niche Cocoa Industry Ltd.

Commodities Processing Industry Limited (CPI) was only producing cocoa liquor with an annual cocoa processing capacity of 8000 metric tons (MT).

The cocoa industry has long been the mainstay of the Ghanaian economy.

The company operates within the free zones enclave in Tema.

Niche now exports cocoa liquor, cocoa butter, cocoa cake and chocolates.

Source: Charles Ayitey | LinkedIn

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