SAY TOMATO Even though Simply Chocolate is a true Copenhagen-based company, our responsibilities go far beyond Denmark’s borders. All the way to Africa and The Ivory Coast where the cocoa for our chocolate grows. We want to ensure that our cocoa farmers are able to live a good life growing our cocoa, and that’s why we’ve joined Cocoa Horizons Foundation. This makes our chocolate bars a bit more expensive than the rest of the pack—but we believe you can taste the difference! Yes, we at Simply Chocolate are always emphasizing that we are a Danish company—but we will never be able to grow the cocoa, up here in the Northern hemisphere. That’s why the cocoa beans that go
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into our chocolate are grown in The Ivory Coast in Western Africa. And we believe that a certain responsibility follows. Just as our local, Copenhagenbased employees work on fair terms, we wish to ensure that the cocoa farmers, their families and the local communities surrounding the cocoa fields thrive and have the opportunity to better their lives. We don’t want to produce and sell chocolate with an aftertaste of underpayment of human beings and exploitation of nature. Sustainable farming through education This is the reason we’re part of Cocoa Horizons, a non-profit organization initiated by Belgian chocolate producer Barry Callebaut. Cocoa Horizons works to improve the livelihood for cocoa farmers and the local communities.
