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Swiss chocolate maker Lindt will increase prices again in 2025
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on March 4, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 25, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on March 4, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 25, 2026
Lindt will implement double-digit price hikes for chocolate in 2025 to offset high cocoa costs, following a 6.3% increase in 2024, according to CFO Martin Hug.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli will increase its prices in the double digit percentage range during 2025 to offset high cocoa prices, Chief Financial Officer Martin Hug said on Tuesday.
Lindt increased it prices by 6.3% in 2024, but that was not enough to offset the steep price increase for cocoa beans, he said.
"Going forward we will need further price increases.... we will do double-digit price increases in 2025," Hug told reporters after the company reported its full year results.
"Chocolate in the future will be more expensive than it has been two or three years ago. That's not just Lindt chocolate, that's chocolate in general," he added.
(Reporting by John Revill; Editing by Madeline Chambers)
Lindt is increasing its prices to offset high cocoa prices, which have significantly impacted their costs.
In 2024, Lindt increased its prices by 6.3%, but this was insufficient to cover the steep rise in cocoa bean prices.
Consumers can expect chocolate to be more expensive than it has been in the past two to three years, not just for Lindt but for the chocolate industry as a whole.
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