The Chocolate Industry

It's almost Easter, so have you stocked up on your chocolate eggs and bunnies yet? Over the Easter weekend, Welsh children will consume around three large Easter eggs each - that's about 3000 extra calories.

The UK's confectionery industry is big business - chocolate sales are worth £3.5bn a year, with the average person munching their way through 10kg of it each year.

But, as more of us become health-conscious, our tastes for chocolate are changing, with sales of dark chocolate increasing by 25% in recent years.

However, the growth in dark chocolate sales worldwide is causing its own problems and we could soon be facing a worldwide shortage of cocoa beans. How will the chocolate makers cope?

Join Sarah Dickins and guests for Wales@Work as they find out if the future is sweet for our chocolate industry?

Wales@Work, Tuesday 27 March at 6.03pm and repeated on Sunday 1 April at 7.03am on BBC Radio Wales.


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