Rizek Cacao, S.A.S.
Company-provided description, not an official-source fact. Certifications, capacities, years and market positions stated in it are the company's own claims until a record below confirms them.
Processor and exporter of organic fine flavour Dominican cocoa beans and cocoa products.
Rizek Cacao sources wet cocoa from smallholder farmers and ferments and dries beans at its facilities in San Francisco de Macorís. The company supplies organic cocoa beans, nibs, liquor and butter to artisanal chocolate makers worldwide. They offer full traceability and custom fermentation profiles for B2B customers.
- Type
- Not established by any record (our catalog import lists it as manufacturer; that is not evidence of the role)
- Role
- Role not established by any record
- Location
- San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic
- Founded
- 1903 (from our catalogue record; not confirmed by the company or by a state register)
- Website
- https://www.rizekcacao.com
- Categories
- Organic Food, Confectionery & Snacks
- Markets
- Dominican Republic, United States
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 2 official records from 2 official sources are on file. 4 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. Nothing here confirms manufacturing, ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-08-09. Mail server of the company domain
- No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. checked 2026-08-09. OpenSanctions
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. checked 2026-08-09. OpenSanctions
- Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-08-09. Domain registry record
- Active legal entity ID (LEI) (record type: lei-active) [official record; status green] A global identifier used in finance; an active one is renewed yearly. checked 2026-09-07. GLEIF global LEI register (golden copy)
- Registry ID checks out with the state register (record type: registry-id-verified) [official record; status green] Helps confirm the company on this page is the same legal entity as in the register. checked 2026-09-10. GLEIF Global LEI record
Claimed certifications, not confirmed by us
- USDA Organic USDA Organic INTEGRITY
- HACCP
Import rules for these goods
- EU imports of food of animal origin and many other food categories must be pre-notified in TRACES and enter through border control posts. European Commission (TRACES)
- US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA
Goods family established: Organic Food (the company's own text), Food Ingredients & Raw Materials (the company's own text). The exact product, operation and trade route needed to determine a product-specific requirement are not established here. Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog category Confectionery & Snacks: no record or company text names goods of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.
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