🌍 Acumen 对 Loom Craft Chocolate 的投资，标志着其首次进入尼日利亚的巧克力行业，旨在推动本土高品质巧克力的生产和发展。此次投资将支持 Loom Craft Chocolate 扩大生产规模、开拓新市场，并进一步加强对小型可可农户的支持。
🤝 Loom Craft Chocolate 致力于提升小型可可农户的收入，通过提供实践培训和公平的采购实践，帮助他们更好地从可可种植中获益。其目标是建立一个更具包容性、价值驱动的可可产业，让尼日利亚的可可生产实现增值。
📈 Acumen 的资金将帮助 Loom Craft Chocolate 将月产量翻倍，并计划到 2029 年实现年产 50 万块巧克力。该公司已向超过 70 名农户提供了采后处理培训，并计划将采购网络扩展至 1000 多名小农户，以提高整体产量和效率。
👩💼 Loom Craft Chocolate 由女性领导，已创造了 45 个就业岗位，其中大部分由女性担任。这不仅在食品和农业领域展示了包容性创业的典范，也为男性占主导的行业树立了榜样，促进了性别平等和当地经济发展。
Acumen has invested in Loom Craft Chocolate, a pioneering Nigerian company producing high-quality chocolate while helping smallholder cocoa farmers earn more from their harvests. This marks Acumen’s first investment in Nigeria’s chocolate sector and will support Loom Craft Chocolate’s plans to expand production, reach new markets, and provide deeper support for rural farmers through hands-on training and fair sourcing practices.
“This investment validates the work we’ve done to create a more inclusive, value-driven cocoa industry in Nigeria,” said Uzoamaka Igweike, Founder and CEO of Loom Craft Chocolate. “Partnering with Acumen allows us to scale faster, reach more farmers, and prove that world-class chocolate can be made right here at origin. By Nigerians, for Nigerians, and for the world.”
Loom Craft Chocolate is redefining what Nigeria’s cocoa sector can be. The company’s chocolate bars and baking blocks are used by bakers, restaurants, and chocolatiers across the country. In 2024 alone, Loom Craft Chocolate sold more than 400 baking blocks and 41,000 chocolate bars.
Acumen’s capital will help Loom Craft Chocolate double its monthly production to 17,000 bars, hire key team members, and purchase equipment to increase output and efficiency. The company has sold more than 220,000 chocolate bars since launching in 2020 and now aims to produce 500,000 bars annually by 2029.
Seventy farmers in Ondo State have already completed Loom Craft Chocolate’s post-harvest training. With support from the TRACE project, Loom Craft Chocolate is expanding its sourcing network to more than 1,000 smallholder farmers.
“What sets Loom Craft Chocolate apart is its boldness,” said Feyisola Adekogbe, Senior Investment Associate at Acumen. “They’ve built a chocolate manufacturing business in one of the most challenging environments, where others have hesitated. Their relentless drive to localize value addition, improve farmer livelihoods, and redefine what’s possible in Nigeria’s cocoa industry is precisely why we’ve backed them.”
The company’s impact extends beyond the farm. Loom Craft Chocolate has created 45 jobs—14 full-time and 31 part-time—with women holding the majority of those roles. As a woman-led manufacturer in a male-dominated sector, Loom Craft Chocolate is showing what inclusive, locally driven entrepreneurship can look like in West Africa’s food and agriculture space.
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