Overview
- Founder Samir Giha dedicated the award to Peruvian cacao families and highlighted producer Luis Samaniego’s role in sourcing the Junín cacao.
- The win builds on Cacaosuyo’s prior World Golds with bars from Amazonas (2019), Cusco (2020 and 2021) and Piura (2022).
- Peru ranks eighth globally in cocoa-bean exports, with about 90,000 family producers cultivating cacao across 16 regions.
- Cacaosuyo’s chocolates are distributed in key markets including China, Japan, the United States and several European countries.
- Peruvian chef-chocolatier Frank Olivares recently took first place in the Chocolate Sculptures category at Paris’s Salon du Chocolat.