Mahogany Chocolate
About Us

A chocolate company that starts at the seed

Mahogany Chocolate Ltd. has produced chocolate in Punta Gorda, Belize since 2016 — from cacao grown on our own farms in Toledo, Belize and in Panama.

Why Belize

Cacao has been here a very long time

Belize has deep Maya roots in cacao cultivation, and the Maya communities of the south produce 95% of the country's fine flavour cacao. Our work is to take that heritage crop and turn it into a high quality product that people here can actually afford — and that buyers abroad can rely on.

That is why the company is built the way it is: our own nursery, our own farms, our own fermentation and drying, our own factory. Not because it is the easy way to make chocolate, but because it is the only way to be answerable for it.

A stepped Maya temple sculpted in chocolate, set on mossy stone in the rainforest, with an ancient temple rising above the trees behind it
Our People

The team and the growers

VP, Farming Operations

Andres Lopez

28 years in agricultural development and coffee farm management, now running our farming operation.

Cacao Grower

Emeterio Sho

Tends our farms alongside his own family plot in Toledo.

Cacao Grower

Jose Antonio Cal

Among the growers whose work sets the standard for every lot we ferment.

Cacao Grower

Evaristo Cowo

Cultivating cacao for the Peini blend and for his own family's farm.

Sustainability

Three pillars, not three slogans

Social

Farmer education and support programmes, and extension officers in the field monitoring social as well as environmental compliance.

Environmental

Cacao grown organically, under shade management, soil improvement and non-chemical pest control.

Economic

Direct purchasing programmes so growers are paid fairly and predictably, without a chain of middlemen.

100% child and slave labour free. We can say it plainly because we own every step and know every farm by name.

EntitiesMahogany Chocolate Ltd. · Mahogany Chocolate S.A. · Peini Cacao Plantation Ltd.
Founded2016, Punta Gorda, Belize
FacilitiesPunta Gorda & Crique Jute, Belize · Bajo Boquete, Panama