First of all, watch this short film wchich I found in the Internet. It explains a lot!
Divine Chocolate Limited is a manufacturer of Fairtrade chocolate products in the United Kingdom and the United States. It is the first farmer owned chocolate company. It was established in the UK in 1998 as a partnership between the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa growers' collective and the alternative trading organization Twin Trading.
Its first product, launched in October 1998, was Divine milk chocolate.
"There are currently around 1.6 million people involved in growing cocoa and many more in associated industries"
Divine Chocolate Ltd is owned by the following organizations:
•45% owned by Kuapa Kokoo, a Fairtrade cocoa cooperative in Ghana.
•43% shares are owned by Twin Trading.
•12% are owned by Oikocredit, a Dutch microfinance institution.
Divine is decorated with traditional West African Adinkra symbols which appear on crafts and fabrics all over Ghana.
Pa Pa Paa - The Best of the Best!
Cocoa from Ghana is of a high quality and trades at a premium on the world market. Kuapa Kokoo's motto is pa pa paa - which means the best of the best in the local Twi language.
Divine Chocolate gained many awards. Here are some of them:
1 comment:
As ever this looks beautiful. It was very interesting to read about this event as I wasn't able to get there. Thanks
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