Tony’s Chocolonely wins the ‘Good Egg’ award and is named industry leader by independent Chocolate Scorecard.
Amsterdam, 28/03/23 — Tony’s Chocolonely, the global impact company on a mission to make 100% slave free the norm in chocolate, has been named industry leader and awarded the “Good Egg” for a third time by independent industry assessment: The Chocolate Scorecard. The industry initiative – founded by Be Slavery Free, Mighty Earth, and VOICE Network, along with other industry organisations and research institutes – recognises and awards sustainability practices of global chocolate makers. The Good Egg Award further proves the effectiveness of Tony’s sourcing model and acknowledges the company’s significant progress in the field of climate and deforestation.
For the 3rd time, Tony’s Chocolonely has received the Good Egg Award for seeking to bring structural change to the entire cocoa sector through collaboration by the Chocolate Scorecard – a credible, independent sustainability assessment of chocolate companies founded by Be Slavery Free, Mighty Earth, and VOICE Network, along with other industry organisations and research institutes.
The Good Egg Award is granted to chocolate companies that exemplify putting people and the planet at the centre for their sourcing model. This starts with knowing exactly where their cocoa beans come from and taking responsibility over their entire supply chain. Alongside Original Beans and Beyond Good, Tony’s Chocolonely continues to score high in the categories of traceability, transparency, and living income. Since its inception, Tony's has appeared in the Top 3 of the Scorecard, now having run for 4 years.
Tony's Impact Navigator, Pavithra Ram says: “We see the Chocolate Scorecard as a credible independent sustainability assessment of chocolate companies. We follow its guidance in how we can continue to raise the bar, which is why we've further worked on our climate and deforestation strategy last year.
We're excited to see that our hard work has been acknowledged with this year's Good Egg Award. It's not only nice, but important to have the effectiveness of our impact model recognised year-on-year by such trustworthy organisations – as we hope it will inspire other chocolate brands to join us on our mission to systematically address the current sustainability issues in cocoa.”
Going green for the climate
During last year’s assessment, the impact company scored lower in the field of climate and deforestation, resulting in a yellow egg – the scoring metric used by the Chocolate Scorecard.
Tony’s Chocolonely has made significant efforts to improve their score such as planting 91,550 new shade trees to lower temperatures and improve biodiversity on cocoa farms. Tony's works with geospatial company Satelligence to carry out deforestation risk assessments and with South Pole to calculate their full Corporate GHG inventory including Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and to set science-based reduction targets.
Despite an overall increase on scores in their environmental efforts, Tony’s Chocolonely scores a yellow egg in agrochemical management. This is due to the Chocolate Scorecard prioritising organic cocoa beans – which is not the reality for most cocoa farmers in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.
Responsibility is scalable
The global chocolate industry is unequally divided, and chocolate companies continue to pay a price for cocoa set too low, which pushes cocoa farmers and their families into poverty. Poverty is the root cause of the 30.000 cases of modern slavery and 1.56 million cases of child labour still present in the cocoa industry in West Africa today.
The Chocolate Scorecard’s industry leaders prove that businesses taking 100% responsibility for their supply chains can be the norm, not the exception.
NOTES TO EDITORS
About Tony’s Chocolonely:
Tony’s Chocolonely is an impact company that makes chocolate. Putting social impact before profit — Tony's Chocolonely's vision is to make chocolate 100% slave free. Not just their own chocolate, but all chocolate worldwide.
The company was founded in 2005 by 3 journalists from the Dutch TV show ‘Keuringsdienst van Waarde’ after they discovered that the world’s largest chocolate manufacturers were buying cocoa from plantations that used child labor and modern slavery.
Since then, Tony’s Chocolonely has dedicated its efforts to raising awareness of and eliminating inequality in the chocolate industry. Tony’s Chocolonely leads by example, building direct, long-term relationships with cocoa farmers in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, paying them a higher price and working together to solve the underlying causes of modern slavery and child labour.
Tony’s Chocolonely wants to inspire the industry as a whole to make 100% slave free the norm in chocolate. They believe that being a better business should be the norm, not the exception. The brand has grown to become one of the market leaders in the Netherlands and its bars are now available almost worldwide, with offices in the Netherlands, USA, UK, Germany, Belgium and Sweden.
Tony's Chocolonely is a B-Corp and Fairtrade-certified.
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