To be the first to find out about new flavours, products, recipes, competitions, exclusive offers and more. We bring people together to create dignified trading relations, empowering both producers and consumers. Divine Chocolate Ltd (UK) has acquired the 69% of Divine Chocolate Inc (USA) that was in other ownership, through a mutually agreed share swap, resulting in Divine Chocolate Ltd owning 100% of Divine Chocolate Inc., whilst bringing in some minority shareholdings to Divine UK. We also like to use analytics cookies to monitor and analyse the use of our website. It was an inspiring moment in chocolate history and a big step towards achieving Divine’s mission to give cocoa farmers a voice in the global marketplace! Two Divine products have received 2013 Great Taste Awards (Guild of Fine Food). Kuapa Kokoo elects its first woman president. Divine is excited to be working with CECAQ-11 co-operative, made up of 1135 members across 20 village associations. Browse the timeline below to find out more. Please confirm your subscription by clicking on the link in the confirmation email. Kuapa Kokoo, and others, continue to benefit from this positive change. With the support of Twin Trading, a fairtrade company aiming to support cocoa farmers, Nana and a group of other farmers found ways to ensure the net gains of the company would belong to farmers, farmers could be paid in cash, and fair trade premiums could be invested in social programs. It serves as the perfect moment to introduce chocolate lovers in the United States to “heavenly chocolate with a heart”. In doing so, this creates a supply chain that shares value more equitably and serves as an example of a viable model for how to secure the sustainable future of cocoa and cocoa farming. Comfort commented, “what an extraordinary example for other cocoa farming women.”. Twin Trading and Kuapa Kokoo launch The Day Chocolate Company in the UK. Divine Chocolate launches in the United States. House of Fairtrade sells a range of fair trade handicrafts supporting artisan producers across the world and has distributed Divine chocolate in Sweden for the last 15 years. This donation gives the farmers' co-operative an even bigger stake: 45% of the company. The nomination recognized Divine Chocolate for "its courageous and creative marketing stance in favour of fair trade in the highly competitive chocolate confectionery market". Divine is audited and certified as a B Corporation - joining the growing movement of thousands of companies worldwide who are signed up to use business as a force for good. Divine Chocolate merges its UK and USA businesses. The announcement is made by Kuapa Kokoo farmer Comfort Kumeah on Valentine’s Day at a White House briefing on Capitol Hill. "We use the amazing power of chocolate to delight and engage. As a result, Sandy Balfour, the then Chairman of Divine, is able to hand over the first dividend cheque to Kuapa Kokoo at its Annual General Meeting in 2007. Sophi Tranchell is ambitious, visionary, outspoken, and a genuine pioneer. In 2006, Divine Chocolate turns a profit for the first time. It was originally established in the UK in 1998 as a company limited by shares co-owned by the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farmers' co-operative in Ghana, Twin Trading and The Body Shop, with support from Christian Aid and Comic Relief. It is Divine’s founding purpose to help farmers gain a share of the wealth they are helping to create, putting them higher up the value chain. Divine is excited to be working with CECAQ-11 co-operative, made up of 1135 members across 20 village associations. Divine Chocolate officially celebrates 20 years of championing cocoa farmers! It was a great moment in chocolate history and a big step towards achieving Divine’s mission. A great testament to all the work Divine and Kuapa Kokoo have done together to ensure women farmers are empowered and have a greater say in their co-op and communities. Divine Chocolate Limited is a British purveyor of Fairtrade chocolate. One of the original Day Chocolate founders, The Body Shop, donates its shares in the company to the members of Kuapa Kokoo, after being bought by L’Oreal.