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Chocolate and Love

Is Chocolate and Love an ethical brand?

Founded by married couple Richard and Birgitte O’Conner in 2010, Chocolate and Love receives an acceptable score on our Ethical Chocolate Ratings Table. Due to its score, Chocolate and Love passes our ethical benchmark as a good, ethical brand. Chocolates and Love sells a range of different flavoured chocolates such as pomegranate, coffee, peppermint and sea salt.

Read more about the issues facing the Chocolate sector in our article on Ethical Chocolate.
 
 In which areas do Chocolate and Love score well?

Passing almost all of our criteria with a high score, Chocolate and Love is highly rated across our categories for Fairtrade, Animal Welfare and Public Record Criticisms. Chocolate and Love encourage other brands to choose Fairtrade products as they can help farmers to improve their communities, become more resilient to climate change and educate their children.

On its website, Chocolate and Love shares information about its care for the environment and being organic, as well as having a dedicated page for Our Planet.

Where is there room for improvement? 

In order to receive Ethical Accreditation, Chocolate and Love need only apply.  The Good Shopping Guide would provide a full review of the brand’s ethical policies and practices and if it passes would be awarded The Good Shopping Guide’s ethical logo. This logo certifies a brand’s ethical status and allows consumers the confidence to recognise whether a brand is ethical or not.

You can find out more about Ethical Chocolate and how other brands score against Chocolate and Love in our Ethical Chocolate Ratings Tables.

Why not get in contact to learn more about Ethical Accreditation or complete our Initial Assessment form if your ethical chocolate brand, company, or product could benefit from receiving an ethics and sustainability certification?

Ethical performance in category

0

GSG score

95
70

GSG category benchmark

100

Ethical Rating

Environment

  • Environmental Report

    Good

  • Genetic Modification

    Good

  • Organic

    Good

  • Nuclear Power

    Good

  • Fossil Fuels

    Good

  • Palm Oil Free

    Acceptable

Animal

  • Animal Welfare

    Good

  • Vegetarian/Vegan Verified

    Good

People

  • Armaments

    Good

  • Political Donations

    Good

  • Fairtrade

    Good

Other

  • Ethical Accreditation

    Poor

  • Public Record Criticisms

    Good

  • Ethical Innovator

    Good

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