Chocolate mass was sold for the first time through BUTB

November 28, Minsk . Chocolate mass was sold for the first time through the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE), the BUCE press service told BELTA.

The first transaction to purchase chocolate mass for the domestic market was concluded at the BUCE. The purchase volume was 60 tons, valued at Br1.4 million. According to BUCE, both participants in the pilot transaction are domestic confectionery companies that regularly used the exchange to purchase raw materials, ingredients, packaging materials, and containers throughout 2025.

"The growth in transaction volumes and the constant expansion of the range of raw materials purchased at auctions by food industry companies demonstrate the dynamic development of this segment of the exchange market and the demand for the instruments offered by the exchange among its participants. In this context, the chocolate mass purchase transaction is a good example of how the exchange platform provided favorable conditions for industrial cooperation between two confectionery manufacturers. As a result, one party to the transaction quickly received the raw materials it needed, and the other sold its products," commented the BUCE press service.

In the first 11 months of 2025, BUCE sold food raw materials, groceries, and fruit and vegetable products worth a total of Br98 million, which is twice as much as in the same period in 2024 . The largest sales volumes were for complex food additives, refined deodorized sunflower oil , starter culture for dairy production, cocoa powder, fruit puree, flavorings, sunflower kernels, fresh apples and palm olein.