Dagoba Chocolate
Dagoba Organic Chocolate is a brand of premium organic chocolate, founded in 2001 by Frederick Schilling. It has been owned by The Hershey Company since 2006. Its founders are no longer involved but Hershey has maintained the brand's factory in Ashland, Oregon. The name Dagoba is a Sinhalese corruption of dhatu-garbha, a Sanskrit word for stupa. (The similarly named fictional Dagobah in the Star Wars universe was derived from the same inspiration.) The brand was founded with a commitment to socially responsible business. Like coffee, the production of chocolate retains vestiges of colonial relationships, so issues of social equity and "fair trade" arise.
In 2003 CNN/Money called them one of the world's best chocolates.
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