B Impact Report

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Divine Chocolate Ltd

Chocolate
Certified Since: October, 2016
Location: London, London, United Kingdom
Sector: Wholesale/Retail

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

127.1

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

www.divinechocolate.com

Divine Chocolate is a company driven by its mission to grow a successful farmer-owned chocolate company using the amazing power of chocolate to delight and engage, while also bringing people together to create dignified trading relations, thereby empowering producers and consumers globally.

Founded in 1998, Divine Chocolate is the only Fairtrade chocolate company that is co-owned by cocoa farmers. Kuapa Kokoo, a co-operative of 100,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana, owns the largest share (44%) and holds two seats on the Board of Directors.

In addition to paying a Fairtrade premium, Divine invests 2% of its income in farmer-led programmes focusing on five areas of action: achieving Gender Justice, training in Sustainable Agriculture, improving Labour Standards, encouraging Strong Democratic Organisations, and ensuring Learning and Leading. Most recently the company has been working with more West African cocoa farmers in Sao Tome, and in Sierra Leone, investing in innovative programmes including enabling women to secure their land rights, and developing Forest-Friendly farming to protect the rainforest.

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info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

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The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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Each year, B Lab releases lists honoring the top-performing Certified B Corps in each Impact Area and overall, broken down by size, on the annual Best for the World lists.

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B Lab may determine that a company should make additional material beyond their B Impact Report transparent in order for the public to be able to evaluate the company’s overall impact. This additional transparency may cover participation in a controversial industry, information shared on the company’s Disclosure Questionnaire, or simply a company’s relationship to a larger complex entity. Public companies and wholly-owned subsidiaries are required to make their full B Impact Assessments transparent to achieve B Corp Certification.