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The 30-Day Brand Revolution

Brands should spend less time pitching and more time engaging, less time fidgeting and more time embracing new ways to expand and outmaneuver expectation. Here, for the first time, brand identity expert David Brier shares a story of one brand that did.READ»

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Tagged Cocoa Beans Now Traceable From Ghana

A new tagging system in Ghana helps chocoholics get their fix without fear of supporting human trafficking.READ»

Here Comes SuperCacao: Mars, Inc. Sequences the Cacao Genome

Chocolate lovers, rejoice. A research team led by scientists at Mars Inc., the U.S. Department of Agriculture--Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and IBM this week sequenced the genome of the cacao tree. Best of all, the ...READ»

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Mars Promises Candy from Sustainable Cocoa

Only a month after Cadbury announced its plan to buy fair-trade cocoa from Ghana, rival candy giant Mars has promised to source all chocolate products from sustainable suppliers by 2020. The move, which means the company will only buy ...READ»

Fair-Trade Towns: Let's Spread the Movement

Out of six official fair-trade towns in the whole United States, two are one town away from me--Amherst, Massachusetts and Northampton, Massachusetts (I live in the town between them, Hadley--which, small as it is, has at least five ...READ»