Chocolate lovers in particular have been paying attention to the news that former key Woolworths supplier Beyers Chocolates is filing for liquidation.
Beyers produce that beloved South African chocolate-covered marshmallow treat, the Sweetie Pie.
Company founder and Belgian master chocolatier Kees Beyers said they had to go into liquidation because of a dispute with Woolworths over supply exclusivity.
Beyers tells Stephen Grootes that they started supplying the retail giant in 1990, after he opened a chocolate factory in South Africa in 1987.
“We supplied Woolworths for 34 years… Twenty years ago, if you’d bought any chocolate product there it would have come out of our factory.”
The dispute stems from Beyers acquiring another factory…