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Everything a journalist needs, checkable and dated: the press review, the verified figures, the logos, the photographs, three lengths of biography, and a short list of the things we would rather were not written about us, because they are not true.

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Press review

15 selected articles · 2019 – 2025

October 2025

PR.com · communiqué

Haitian Cocoa and Breadfruit Shine on the Global Stage, lancement du biscuit Choucoune au Salon du Chocolat de Paris

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18 October 2023

The Haitian Times

Fashion designer Ralph Leroy Prophete adds chocolatier title to portfolio

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13 September 2023

Caribbean Export

Makaya, Ambassador of Haitian Chocolate, par Romily Thevenin. Le portrait le plus complet à ce jour

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2022

Caribbean News Global

Definite Chocolate – Makaya Chocolat create Binational Chocolate Collection, la collection Quisqueya

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July 2022

Programme Binational

Le dialogue chocolat : une langue binationale

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26 December 2020

AFP

De la fève à la tablette, le cacao d'Haïti veut sa place à l'international, repris par Le Soleil, France 24, VOA, Arab News

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27 December 2020

France 24

From bean to bar, Haiti's cocoa wants international recognition

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16 July 2020

Juno7 · Nancy Roc

Makaya Chocolat : labeur et créativité autour du « chocolat d'or d'Haïti »

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2019

Challenges · Haiti

Chocolat Makaya, raising the bar

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Montréal

The Main

« At the intersection of chocolate, culture, and personal history »

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Visit Haiti

Haitian Businesses and Brands You Should Know

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Montréal

Spotted by Locals

Hot Chocolate Heaven

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Verified facts

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The house

Founded: 16 July 2016, Port-au-Prince
Founder: Ralph Leroy Prophète, born in Cap-Haïtien
Status: Haiti's first bean-to-bar laboratory
Signature: “Haiti's golden chocolate”
Workshop: Port-au-Prince, Haiti · the country's first bean to bar laboratory
Canada: Makaya Chocolat & Bistro · 1045 Côte du Beaver Hall, Montréal
Opening: Lachine, September 2023 → downtown, 15 August 2026
Stockists: 15+, incl. airport duty-free
Where sold: The Montréal bistro · trade accounts
Processed: ≈ 1 tonne of beans in seven years (2016-2023)

The cocoa

Supplier: FECCANO · Federation of cocoa cooperatives of the North
Founded in: 2001
Cooperatives: 8 since 2018
Growers: ≈ 4,000, incl. ≈ 40 % women
FECCANO output: ≈ 450 t / yr
Price to growers: $0.50/kg (2000s) → ≈ $3.00/kg
Varieties: Criollo · Trinitario · Forastero
Fermentation: Mastered from 2007 to 2009 with AVSF and Ethiquable
Certifications: Fairtrade FLO 2003 · Organic Ecocert 2011 · SPP 2013

Three mistakes we keep reading

Makaya was not founded in Italy.

The house was founded in Port-au-Prince on 16 July 2016. Italy is where Ralph Leroy trained in tempering, in 2018, two years later, and on another continent.

The Cocoa of Excellence awards belong to the FECCANO.

Haitian cocoa was distinguished among the fifty best in the world in 2013 and 2015. That prize belongs to the growers' federation, not to Makaya. Please do not attribute it to us.

Makaya is not Ayitika.

Ayitika is another Haitian chocolate brand, which won at the International Chocolate Awards in 2025. We are glad for them. It is not us.

Media kit

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Portrait officiel de Ralph Leroy Prophète en veste noire de chocolatier, bras croisés, sur fond orange, avec sa signature — Official portrait · Ralph Leroy Prophète

Official portrait

The portrait to use.

This is the portrait we ask you to run: signed by the chocolatier, shot in the workshop jacket. High resolution version on request, along with the workshop, bistro and plot series.

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