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Theo Chocolate

A Seattle bean-to-bar chocolate maker that was the first organic, fair-trade, bean-to-bar chocolate factory in North America when it opened in 2006. Cacao sourced from Peru, the DRC, and the Dominican Republic; full-roast-to-bar production at the Fremont, Seattle factory; the factory itself is open to the public for tours.

What they do

Theo Chocolate is a bean-to-bar chocolate maker — they buy raw cacao beans, roast and conch and temper them in-house at the Fremont, Seattle factory, and wrap the bars for retail. Every bar is organic and fair-trade. Origins span Peru, DRC, Dominican Republic; the format range covers single-origin dark, milk, classic confections, and seasonal collaboration bars. The factory runs public tours — chocolate-making as transparent process rather than opaque packaging.

Why it’s listed

The chocolate supply chain is one of the most documented atrocities in modern food — child labor, deforestation, generational poverty traps in cacao-producing regions. A bean-to-bar maker that has held the organic + fair-trade line for ~20 years, at a scale large enough to keep an open factory in Seattle, is doing the harder version of what every chocolate brand should be doing. The directory already lists [[tonys-chocolonely]], [[alter-eco]], and [[divine-chocolate]]; Theo completes the major-axis ethical-chocolate cluster.

See also

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  • Shares approach with: [[tonys-chocolonely]] · [[alter-eco]] · [[divine-chocolate]]
  • Member of: [[business]]

Sources

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[puget-sound]] in [[directory|the directory]].

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