The global cocoa market

This bachelor thesis deals with the global cocoa market. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the global cocoa market and indentify the future prospects of this market. The first chapter deals with the general charakteristics of this commodity, i.e. the history of cocoa growing, types of cocoa, cocoa cultivation and cocoa producing areas, and it is processed by using the methods of synthesis and comparison. Another chapter is the analysis of the global cocoa market, which presents the greatest exporting and importing countries, the developement of cocoa price, cocoa processing and chocolate industry. The third part presents the forms of cocoa trading, i.e. cocoa trading on exchanges and the alternative form fair trade. This part also presents the International Cocoa Organization and International Cococa Initiative. The last chapter focuses on the evaluation and perspectives of the global cocoa market in the future by using the method of compilation. The contribution of this thesis is the determination of the cocoa price and possible solution to the growing demand for cocoa in the future