Divine Fair Trade Chocolate

...Introduction... You will probably have heard of the fair trade campaign led by The Coop. The basic jist of it all is that The movement advocates the payment of a fair price as well as good social and environmental standards in areas related to the production of a wide variety of goods. The main products that are manufactured this way are handicrafts, coffee, chocolate, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit, This is a wide range of items but many are items we take for granted in the western world. Basically the farmers who grow the cocoa beans own 33% of the chocolate company ...Divine... They are one of the ...  Read the complete review

its quite difficult to write a reveiw on divine chocolate. the name says it all. i was first introduced to divine chocolate when i started running a stall in my church selling fairly traded goods. There are a variety of flavours now, milk, dark, white, orange, hazelnut, coffee, and fruit. I think! They all taste delicious, although i am not keen on the dark chocolate, it is very strong. The chocolate is made with the workers in mind, and it gives them a fair deal on their chocolate so that they can afford bacic comoditiys like food and shelter. Its this aspect, which, for me makes it so appealing over other chocolate bars, which are made using workers, who are paid so ...  Read the complete review

Unlike Hugh Grant I didn't meet Divine on a kerbside in LA, instead I was mooching in The Body Shop browsing their body butters and natural soaps. Waiting behind a couple of people in the queue to pay my eyes started wandering over the counter and I noticed a box of chocolate bars. Chocolate bars in The Body Shop? What's going on? It was boredom that made me pick a bar up, the lady in front was being awkward so I idly reached for a bar just for something to focus on. It was then I noticed why The Body Shop are so keen to prominently display the Divine bars, as a company that markets itself as eco-friendly it's fairly obvious that they'll want to be seen ...  Read the complete review

With the advent of Fairtrade Fortnight just a couple of months ago (March 1st - 14th 2004) I tried to do my bit and bought a few Fairtrade products to help the cause. Top of my list, as always, was a bar of milk chocolate and I happened upon the Heavenly Divine Milk Chocolate bar while doing my shopping in Tesco. It looked good, and had the Fairtrade logo prominently displayed so into my trolley it went. The Ethic So what`s all this Fairtrade malarkey then? Well, www.divinechocolate.com description is as follows ?gFair trade aims to build beneficial trading ...  Read the complete review

Are you a dark chocolate or a milk chocolate person? I'm a dark chocolate person. I am, dare I say it, also rather a chocolate snob. I don't like any old rubbish. I like my chocolate very dark and bitter, bitter-sweet. And preferably, I like my chocolate with an equally dark, equally bitter, bitter-sweet cup of coffee. Yum! Enter a bar of Darkly Divine, from the Day Chocolate Company, one of the market leaders in Fair Trade choccie. Could it replace my usual Lindt Excellence in taste and quality? Better still, could it replace my favourites Dolfin and Montezuma? ...  Read the complete review