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The purchase of Armajaro will boost the position of Ecom, a little known company outside the commodities industry, in cocoa and coffee trading. The group, which counts Starbucks and Procter & Gamble as clients, will become one of the top purchasers of cocoa alongside Barry Callebaut of Switzerland and US agricultural traders Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland.