Event overview
As part of FAIRTRADE fortnight here at Goldsmiths, Divine Chocolate managing director and recipient of an MBE, Sophi Tranchell will give a talk on her work with Divine Chocolate.
Divine Chocolate is one of the most sustainably and FAIRTRADE companies in operation today. In fact, Divine Chocolate is the only Fairtrade chocolate company owned by cocoa farmers - a business model delivering the most equitable relationship with cocoa farmers in the mainstream chocolate market.
With the help of NGO Twin, The Body Shop, Comic Relief and Christian Aid, and support of DFID – Divine was born in 1998, and has since grown to a £12m business. The farmers of the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative not only share in the wealth they have helped create, but have a hugely empowering knowledge of and influence in the industry they supply, as company-ownership has placed them higher up the value chain.
The talk will take place in the Ben Pimlott Building (LG05)
Sophi Tranchell’s vision includes:
* More direct stakeholders, including employees and suppliers, being shareholders
* A living wage with decent terms and conditions for all employees
* Corporates working in better partnership with smallholders worldwide in recognition that they supply a significant proportion of the world’s food
* Corporations respecting nation states and paying appropriate local taxes
* Companies reporting the differential between their top and their bottom levels of pay
* Government commitment to a greater percentage of its contracts delivered by SMEs
When interviewed in the past, Sophie stated that she “started with the commitment to social responsibility and built a business around it. Wherever you start - we can all have the same vision – of global and national business taking on full social responsibility for both operations and outputs.”
Sophi would like to see “a world where the democratic principles which we defend in the UK and in international politics are better adhered to in business – where power is accountable and shared, and where wealth is better distributed. Business which acknowledges social justice. This is what I would mean by responsible capitalism.”
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 27 Feb 2013 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
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