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Divine Chocolate wrapper designed with Adinkra symbols.
Divine, the first ever Fairtrade chocolate bar from the cocoa beans farmed by Kuapa Kokoo, a cooperative of over 45,000 small scale farmers in Ghana.
Divine Chocolate Ltd is now owned by the following organizations:
45% owned by Kuapa Kokoo, a Fairtrade cocoa cooperative in Ghana.
43% shares are owned by Twin Trading, an alternative trading organization based in London.
12% are owned by Oikocredit, a Dutch microfinance institution
Divine Chocolate was voted Observer Best Ethical Business in 2008, and Best Social Enterprise in 2007. Divine was also voted Favourite Fairtrade Product by Good Housekeeping in 2008.
Divine Chocolate was a runner-up in the 2002 Worldaware Award for small businesses. The nomination recognized Divine Chocolate for “its courageous and creative marketing stance in favour of fair trade in the highly competitive chocolate confectionery market”.
Get more stats info on the company here.
I recommend this company to everyone 100 times over. Not only are they ethical, but they’re fucking DELICIOUS.
I picked up a bar of this chocolate about a year ago because the wrapper was incredibly gorgeous and I buy most things for purely aesthetic purposes. Then, it was the best chocolate EVER, and I’ve continued to use it for all of my chocolate needs. I honestly had no idea that it was such a fab company, and I think all of you should go to your nearest World Market (or other Divine retailer) and pick up like 90 bars.
Man I used to get the dark chocolate mint one all the time… so delicious, no other chocolate has measured up. And believe me, I am a tester of fairtrade chocolate.