NEW TOUTON SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2024–25 RELEASED
DETERMINATION AND PROGRESS IN TURBULENT MARKETS
Bordeaux, 15 September 2025 – Ahead of the European Cocoa Forum General Assembly in Malta, the Touton group is proud to announce the release of its 2024–2025 Sustainability Report (Declaration of Extra-Financial Performance). The report reflects Touton’s ongoing commitment to building resilient and responsible cocoa, coffee, and ingredients supply chains, even amid historic market volatility.
“Bis repetita”: navigating another extraordinary year
2024–2025 was again marked by severe disruptions across tropical commodities. Cocoa faced structural production deficits, historically low stock levels, and extreme price swings, while coffee experienced a fourth consecutive year of global deficit (7.5 million bags), with Arabica and Robusta prices reaching record highs under the combined impact of climate change and EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) anticipation. Ingredients markets remained volatile, with vanilla prices low and cloves fluctuating between shortage and oversupply.
Through this turbulence, Touton teams stayed the course, leveraging market research, trading expertise, operational agility, and local presence to secure supplies and honor 100% of contracts.
Patrick de Boussac, CEO of the Touton group, said:
"This report reflects both the turbulence we faced and the collective intelligence that drives Touton forward. In times of volatility, our financial solidity, sustainability commitment, and trust-based partnerships have enabled us to keep our promises. We remain determined to transform supply chains into engines of resilience and growth."
Sustained efforts in system transformation
Beyond market management, 2024–2025 was a year of strategic reinforcement across operations:
- Financial robustness – Secured liquidity through diversified financing sources, partnering with over 50 financial institutions, including investment funds, across Europe and producing countries.
- Tangible impact of the Positive Agri Culture by Touton (PACT) – Touton’s responsible sourcing tool, PACT STANDARD, is scaling up from pilot projects in Ghana to wider programs in Uganda, Tanzania, and Madagascar, covering cocoa, coffee, and vanilla. PACT STANDARD now holds Global Coffee Platform recognition,2nd party assurance, supporting tens of thousands of producers while meeting industry sustainability expectations.
- Climate strategy – the group is conducting its 2nd global carbon footprint assessment and advancing toward its 2035 SBTi GHG emissions reductions' targets based 16 on action levers, from regenerative agriculture to low-carbon freight and Life Cycle Assessments of its factories.
- Regulatory readiness & digital transformation – Touton enhanced its supplier evaluation and whistleblowing systems, completed its double-materiality assessment (EU CSRD), and progressed traceability and mapping, recording over 250,000 plantations in preparation for EUDR.
Quality and trust – the group achieved IFS Broker certification in December 2024, making Touton one of the first global traders in cocoa, spices, and vanilla to earn this food safety recognition
These strategic reinforcements laid the groundwork for concrete results across Touton’s supply chains. By building on financial, operational, and sustainability initiatives, the group advanced its PACT objectives, delivering measurable benefits for producers, communities, and clients. For example:
- Resilient agri-industry – Zero-deforestation traceability
Within one year, Touton expanded deforestation risk assessments from a national focus to a global scope, covering more than 320,000 plantations in Africa. Using satellite technology, data monitoring, and farmer engagement, the group strengthens compliance, safeguards market access, and protects tropical forests.
- Culture of trust – Child protection and community empowerment
Touton extended child labor risk monitoring to over 138,000 producers across four major sourcing countries. Local protection committees and young “agri-preneurs” in Ghana combine farm services with child protection awareness, addressing risks through both sensitisation and community action.
- Inclusive growth – Certification and supplier compliance as trust levers
Touton reinforced responsible business practices through ethics and anti-corruption training, CSR policy updates, and supplier engagement, with more than 90% of suppliers signing the Code of Conduct. Certification programs— including Rainforest Alliance, Fair Trade, and PACT STANDARD —were accelerated in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Central America, diversifying sustainable cocoa supply and meeting client expectations. By integrating international standards with internal programs, Touton turns compliance and certification into levers for trust, differentiation, and long-term growth.
For more information, read our full report, available in English and French: