Twin Trading
Twin Trading was an alternative trading company in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1985 and was based in London.[1]
Twin Trading was wholly owned by Twin, a registered charity and membership organisation. It was co-founded by economist Michael Barratt Brown, who was also at one time its chairman.[1] He stood down from the Board in August 2007.[2]
Twin was founded as the Third World Information Network with the support of the Greater London Council.[1] In 1988 it began to import coffee, sold through Oxfam and Traidcraft,[3] leading to the 1988 founding of Cafédirect by Twin[1] with Oxfam, Traidcraft and Equal Exchange Trading. In 1993, Twin helped chocolate farmers in Ghana to found the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative, and in 1998 Divine Chocolate was formed,[1] largely owned by Kuapa Kokoo, to market Fairtrade chocolate. Twin also launched OKÉ and Liberation Nuts.
In November 2019 it was bought by Sustainable Harvest,[4] a United States–based green coffee importer.[5]
References
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- ^ Companies House, Twin Trading Ltd., accessed 23 August 2021
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