Fairtrade brand Divine Chocolate has merged its UK and US operations.
The farmer-owned chocolate company has combined the two businesses and with it, Kuapa Kokoo, the farmers’ co-operative in Ghana that voted to set up a chocolate company back in 1997, will own 44 per cent of the merged company.
A brand new trade event has been created for independent health stores, taking place on 25th October.
Target Publishing, the publisher of Organic & Natural Business, is working in collaboration with the National Association of Health Stores (NAHS) on a brand new trade event in Manchester.
A leading certification body is calling on the newly elected Conservative Government to ensure it carries out its promises to the food and farming sectors.
Following the result of the General Election, Organic Farmers & Growers Chief Executive, Roger Kerr (pictured), has urged David Cameron’s Government to fulfil pledges it made.
The Organic Protein Company has donated more than £1,000 to an animal welfare charity.
The Brighton-based business has raised more than £1,100 for Compassion in World Farming as part of its commitment to donate 25p for every pack sold of its organic whey protein.
New research confirming higher antioxidant levels in organic food shatters the myth that farming methods do not affect quality.
That’s according to Soil Association Chief Executive, Helen Browning, who was responding to publication of a study at Newcastle University and published in the British Journal of Nutrition, which reveals that organic fruit, vegetables and cereals contain significantly higher concentrations of antioxidants and lower levels of pesticides.
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