Green & Black's is a British chocolate company founded in 1991. The company produces a range of organic food products, including: chocolate bars, ice cream, biscuits and hot chocolate. Green & Black's was bought by

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in 2005, and later became part of

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(formerly known as Kraft Foods). It has principal manufacturing sites in Canada, Poland, and Italy.

History

Founding

Green & Black's was founded in 1991 by the couple

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and Josephine Fairley, organic food pioneer and journalist respectively. The name was derived from a wordplay — "Green" standing for the environmental concerns of the founders, and "Black" for the high cocoa solids chocolate they wished to provide. In 1994, the company began purchasing

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from Maya farmers in

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for the Maya Gold chocolate bar, and was awarded the Worldaware Business Award in 1994 for good business practice, as well as the UK's first Fairtrade mark. The company has a small office in Punta Gorda, Belize.

Ownership changes and fairtrade

In May 2005, Cadbury Schweppes (latterly Cadbury plc) bought Green & Black's for an undisclosed sum, estimated to be around £20m. Cadbury pledged to run the company as a separate business. Green & Black's Australia chocolate announced that it would convert 90% of its range to Fairtrade by the end of 2010, and its entire range by 2011. In August 2017 the company launched its first product line, the Velvet Edition, which is neither Fair Trade nor Organic.

Operations

Green & Black's has operations around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and other nations.

United States

Green & Black's sells chocolate bars in the United States. They are sold in stores such as

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and

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. They have various chocolate bars, in various flavors such as "Dark 85% Cacao" and "White". All are Fairtrade Certified.

Recalls

On 15 October 2012 Mondelēz Global LLC conducted voluntary U.S. recall of Green & Black's organic peanut and sea salt milk chocolate bar due to possible health risk.https://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm324043.htm
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Books

* ''Sweet Dreams – The Story of Green & Black’s'' Craig Sams and Josephine Fairley, (2008)

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Notes

External links

Official website

Green & Black's profile
* http://www.craigsams.com
Green & Black's Australia going Fair Trade.
The Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand

FDA U.S. Food and Drug administration

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