Passion
for cocao
Huyser Möller is an international trading company in cocoa beans and cocoa products
Since 1931, we have been supplying the confectionery industry with raw materials and semi-manufactured products, with passion, knowledge of the business and an eye for our customers and suppliers.
We attach a great deal of importance to long-term relationships
We are developing long-term relationships with our customers, suppliers and other partners – and those relationships are based on mutual trust. Professionalism and reliability are therefore central to us at all times.
In the Dominican Republic, Huyser Möller has been working closely with Humarias since 2008. Humarias is an organisation that manages several plantations and possesses a fermentation unit, drying tunnels, drying machines and sheds where the cocoa is stored. Humarias produces two types of cocoa beans: Hispaniola cocoa (fermented) and Sanchez cocoa (not fermented). The cocoa beans come from its own plantations and is purchased from local farmers.
With support from Huyser Möller, Humarias is able to provide small farmers with microcredits. What’s more, with our support, a shop has been opened in Joba Arriba where plantation employees are able to buy food products for a favourable price. Through Humarias, we are also investing in local projects, such as infrastructure for making villages and schools more accessible and the laying of a new water pipe in Piragua.
Eye for social and sustainable entrepreneurship
More and more of the cocoa that Humarias supplies to Huyser Möller is organic. Humarias is bio-certified (BCS Öko). All the cocoa that originates from the company’s own plantations can be supplied with a bio-certificate. Artificial fertiliser and pesticides are not used on Humarias’ plantations. New and more efficient production techniques help to achieve a higher yield and retain nature and biodiversity. For example, biomass-powered drying machines have been installed that keep the impact on the environment as low as possible.
Huyser Möller is also selling more and more certified cocoa (UTZ, Rainforest Alliance), thereby helping to create better working conditions, a better environment and aid with nature conservation.
We work with a small and enthusiastic team
Responding to our customers’ requirements as effectively as possible is central to the work we do. With our small and enthusiastic team, we are able to offer flexibility, assurance and dedication.
Our story starts
in 1931
On 1 February 1931, Mr Adrianus Huyser (born in Amsterdam in 1892) registered the limited partnership A.L. Huyser & Co. in the Commercial Register in Amsterdam. As sole partner, he contributed 25,000 gilders and granted power of attorney to Mr Johan Frederik Möller (born in Amsterdam in 1902). The company began at Singel 390 in Amsterdam and was involved in the import, export and commission business of primarily cocoa products.
In 1933, the company moved to Reguliersdwarsstraat 108-144 in Amsterdam. In 1937, Mr Huyser had recorded in the Commercial Register that ‘the Company is currently running an import and export business in feed, cocoa products & Indian products’.
On 13 September 1939, Mr Möller joined as a second partner. Following the outbreak of the war, the company moved to Vossiusstraat 43 in Amsterdam and developed more activities: ‘currently import and export trade in the widest sense of the word’.
In 1943, the company changed its name to Huyser, Möller c.v. Following the difficult war years, the company began to focus on its original activities once again.
In the 1960s and 70s, Huyser Möller lost his role as commission agent (intermediary) and the company increasingly took responsibility for its own trading. In 1989, the company relocated to the Purmer region to the north of Amsterdam.
Between 1970 and 2005, Huyser Möller processed (cleaned) the cocoa in Terschuur. The processing unit then moved to Barneveld, where a storage unit was also added.
On 24 March 2006, Huyser Möller opened its doors to the new office premises in Edam.