Divine Chocolate

What could be better than buying delicious chocolate with the knowledge you're also doing something good for society?

Divine Chocolate has led the growth in Fairtrade chocolate here in the UK, and have set the bar higher by being co-owned by the cocoa farmers cooperative Kuapa Kokoo in Ghana. This way the farmers not only receive a fair price for their cocoa which they invest in community and farm development, but also a large share in the company's profit, and the knowledge and power company-ownership also delivers.

In the early 1990s, Kuapa Kokoo was set up by a group of cocoa growers in Ghana, West Africa to trade its own cocoa, and thus manage the selling process more efficiently than government cocoa agents.  

In 1997 the farmers voted to set up their own chocolate company, and in 1998 the fair trade organisation Twin Trading, The Body Shop, Christian Aid and Comic Relief came together to launch Divine Chocolate. Against the odds it has grown to an £8m business with over 35 products available in supermarkets, Oxfam and independent stores and delicatessens all over the country and now in many international markets too.

In 2010 Divine’s MD Sophi Tranchell won the Ernst & Young UK Entrepreneur of the Year, in June 2008 Divine won the Observer Ethical Business Award and a Good Housekeeping Food Award. In 2007 it won Best Social Enterprise of the Year at the Enterprising Solution Awards.  

Visit the Divine Chocolate website to find out more and buy their produce online.