In addition, during the same period, increased imports of other cocoa products: full fat flour, cocoa paste 2% to 2 762 tons and cocoa powder 9% to 2 836 tons. Decreased and the average purchase price as cocoa beans (-8%), and other types of cocoa raw materials.

High dynamics of import it cocoa beans, compared with other types of cocoa raw materials, suggests that purchases are increasing primarily by large Russian manufacturers of chocolate products has its own treatment.

"In Russia, restoring the consumption of sweets in General and chocolates in particular. A sharp increase in the supply of certain types of cocoa raw materials may indicate a change in the structure of sales in favor of more expensive types of products, — says the Executive Director of the Center for research of the confectionery market Elizaveta Nikitina. — However, the recovery of consumption is not yet a permanent nature and consumer preferences are all the same concentrated in the mass segment".

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