12 December 2008
Divine Chocolate launches online gift shop
The ultimate in delicious chocolate treats for Christmas
Freema Agyeman, from Doctor Who and Touchwood fame.
If you want to send something really special for Christmas, look no further than the new Divine Chocolate Shop!
Divinechocolateshop.com launches today, just in time for the festive season! With exclusive gift combinations from Divine’s chocolate range, it’s yet another exciting development from Divine, the UK’s leading Fairtrade chocolate company co-owned by cocoa farmers. The last day for Divine online shopping is 18th December.
With eleven gift ideas to choose from, you’ll be sure to find a gorgeous present to suit all tastes and ages. Today’s discerning consumer looking for both high quality products and ethical credentials they can trust need look no further than Divine for all their chocolatey gift solutions. By choosing Divine there is the added reassurance that the 45,000 cocoa farmers who belong to the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative are receiving a fair and more empowering deal, as well as a share in Divine’s profits. Divine – the chocolate that makes everyone feel good.
Visit Divine Chocolate Shop to view the eleven gift ideas on offer – which include combinations that you won’t find anywhere else.
We may not be guaranteed a white Christmas but family and friends will be delighted by this snowy themed gift set. Exclusive to the Divine Chocolate Shop the Divine White Christmas (£15) features sumptuously smooth Divine white chocolate in all its glory. Included in the Fairtrade wicker hamper is a beautifully packaged box of White Chocolate & Strawberry Truffles (200g), two bars of smooth White Chocolate (100g each), and two bars of White Chocolate with Strawberries (100g each) – crunchy pieces of strawberry crisp surrounded by creamy cocoa butter. As with the entire Divine product range, the chocolate bars and truffles feature only the very finest cocoa butter handpicked by farmers in Ghana, use entirely natural ingredients, and incorporate real strawberries - so you’re guaranteed an entirely authentic taste experience.
For those with a taste for the darker treats in life look no further than the Dark Divine Delight gift option (£20). Featuring an indulgent selection of Divine goodies all using Divine’s critically acclaimed 70% dark chocolate this is the perfect guilt free choice this season. The Fairtrade basket contains:
• A box of After Dinner Mints – slim squares of Divine dark chocolate with smooth natural peppermint fondant centres (200g)
• A bar of 70% Dark Mint Chocolate (100g)
• A bar of 70% Dark Chocolate (100g)
• Dark Chocolate Coated Apricots (125g) – juicy dried apricots from Northern Pakistan coated in delicious 70% dark chocolate
• Dark Chocolate Coated Brazils (150g) – fresh brazil nuts from Brazil covered in Divine 70% chocolate
• Dark Chocolate Coated Mangos (100g) – dried mangos from Burkino Faso covered in Divine 70% chocolate
• Cocoa Powder (125g) – Divine Cocoa is the perfect choice for using in your favourite chocolate recipes as well as whisking up with milk for a steaming mug of hot chocolate.
Other irresistible gift ideas include the Divine Christmas Hamper (£30); the Divine Baking Hamper (£30) featuring the exclusive Divine recipe book along with all the Divine products you’ll need to whip up some chocolatey culinary creations in the kitchen; and Divine and Wine (£15) featuring an assortment box of Divine chocolates and a bottle of Fairtrade red wine.
With so much to choose from Divine really is the perfect choice for giving and sharing, celebrating and indulging this season.
All the Divine products featured on www.divinechocolateshop.com are Fairtrade certified and are made using only the finest cocoa beans and cocoa butter from farmers in Ghana who belong to the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative. And because the farmers also own a 45% stake in the company, it means they contribute to the running of the company and share in Divine profits. In celebration of Divine’s Ghanaian heritage, all products are beautifully adorned with the Adinkra symbols of West Africa. All the hampers on the Divine Chocolate Shop are fairly traded, made by hand with fibre from the hogla plant which grows on riverbanks across Bangladesh.
Standard Delivery (3-6 days) costs £3.95 and Next Day Delivery costs £7.95.
For more information about the Divine Christmas product range please contact Charlotte Borger or Rosanna Mayhew.
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Editors Notes:
• For more details about the Divine range of Fairtrade chocolate and the story of Divine and Kuapa Kokoo visit www.divinechocolate.com
• Divine Chocolate Ltd is co-owned by Kuapa Kokoo, a co-operative of 45000 cocoa farmers in Ghana who grow the Fairtrade beans for Divine and Dubble, and who share in the profits.
• All Divine products carry the Fairtrade Mark. This is an independent guarantee certified by the Fairtrade Foundation that the ingredients are sourced under internationally agreed fair trade terms and conditions. These include a guaranteed, secure minimum price, an extra social premium payment for the farmers to invest in their own community programmes, long term trading contracts, decent health and safety conditions – all aimed at empowering farmers to make their own improvements to living standards and prospects for the future
• Divine Chocolate has won a number of prestigious awards. These include Good Housekeeping’s Favourite Fairtrade Product 2008 and Best Food Brand in the SHE magazine Ethical Awards 2007. Divine Chocolate Ltd was awarded Best Social Enterprise 2007 at the Enterprising Solutions awards run by the Office of the Third Sector.
• The UK chocolate market alone is worth approximately £3.4 billion a year: if Fairtrade products can capture even a small proportion of that market, producers in developing countries gain real benefits.