28 Jan 2022 --- The Barry Callebaut Group’s mid-term guidance highlights a robust upswing for chocolate as it recovers from the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company – supplies chocolate to Nestlé and Hershey – achieved a strong sales volume growth of 8.9% to 610,048 metric tons during the first three months of the fiscal year 2021/22, which ended November 30, last year.While this was achieved against a weak comparison base, the chocolate and cocoa giant notes it was well ahead of the group’s pre-COVID-19 volume in 2019/20.