Green and Blacks

From Hooked - Students for Trade Justice

Green & Blacks was founded in the United Kingdom in 1991, and had one of the first fair trade chocolates available in Australia. They sell fair trade chocolates as well as drinking chocolate and cocoa.

Craig and Jo visited Belize on holiday and drank a local drink flavoured with cocoa beans and spices made by Mayan farmers whose ancestors had originally domesticated the cocoa bean. Inspired by the taste and aroma of the rainforests, they decided to recapture them in Green & Black's Maya Gold chocolate - a blend of intense dark chocolate with a refreshing twist of orange, perfectly balanced by the warmth of cinnamon , nutmeg and vanilla. Maya Gold was the first product to be awarded the Fair Trade mark.'

They have subsequently been purchased by Cadbury's, but continue to produce ethical cocoa products. Please note there only two products that are have the FAIRTRADE label; the MayaGold and the cocoa powder

See Green & Blacks website for more information