Virgin Atlantic chief operating officer Steve Griffiths says, “A key focus for Virgin Atlantic is sustainable growth and we are working hard to bring our passengers the highest quality products whilst reducing our environmental impact and supporting developing communities. We’re thrilled to have such a respected ethical brand as Divine Chocolate on board and we know it will be popular with our customers.

“The Divine milk bar will feature alongside a number of other treats for our Upper Class passengers as part of our recently upgraded meal experience which includes a whole new cutlery and crockery service as well as a more contemporary food offer and, on certain flights, a fabulous new afternoon tea service.”

Search for ‘Divine App’ on the App Store (in the Lifestyle category). It’s free to download.

Created for Divine by creative agency Uber London, the Divine App was designed to bring a little   Divine happiness to every Smartphone and iPad – with exclusive features for those who love baking with chocolate. There is a diverse selection of recipes for cooks of all standards, including a heavenly white chocolate cheesecake, an old fashioned chocolate pudding, chocolate & cherry torte, a chocolate fudge cake created for Divine by Tom Aikens, healthy chocolate pots created for Divine by Ian Marber aka The Food Doctor, a seriously tempting sticky peanut butter cake created by Linda Collister, author of the recipebook accompanying BBC2’s Great British Bake Off … and lots more. The Divine App will be updated periodically with new recipes and features, including great seasonal ideas using Divine.

With the Divine App to hand you will always be able to find your nearest Divine stockist wherever you are in the UK, be it a supermarket or an independent deli, wholefoods store or gift shop. Divine is found in many surprising outlets so this feature will be an invaluable tool when searching for your next Divine treat or ingredients for one of the Divine recipes. iPhone users can also add the name and address of a Divine stockist if they find one that’s not yet listed.

The app also features a Quick Tips section of short and informative videos demonstrating some chocolate baking basics. These include essential kit, melting chocolate, ingredients, and greaseproofing.

This extension to the range is inspired by Divine’s strawberry white chocolate flavoured bar. Each silver foiled heart combines white chocolate with pieces of strawberry crisp made with real strawberries.

All ingredients are entirely natural and they are suitable for vegetarians. The 125g packs are priced at £4.50 (rrp) and will be available at Oxfam shops nationwide and from Divine’s online shop from January 2012. For the online shop visit www.divinechocolate.com/shop.

The other two lines in the mini heart range are dark chocolate hearts made with Divine’s 70% chocolate and milk chocolate hearts – all wrapped in shiny coloured foil. Both packs will be available at Waitrose, Oxfam and Divine’s online shop from January 2012 and also carry an RRP of £4.50.

In addition to this customers to the online shop can purchase a beautiful gift set for their loved one this Valentine’s Day. The Divine Chocolate Shop has recently re-launched, to make for a seamless shopping experience. Gift sets range in price from £12.50 to £50.00 and offer unique combinations for every age and chocolate palette. For full gift set and individual product listings visit www.divinechocolate.com/shop.

The gift sets range in price from £12.50 to £50.00 and all come packaged in elegant powder blue and pale green boxes. A Christmas promotion running from 14 November up to Christmas will offer free delivery on gift boxes over £20.

As well as gift boxes there are over 40 individual products for sale including strawberry white chocolate, raspberry dark chocolate, and a dark chocolate infused with ginger & orange.

Baking enthusiasts can stock up on Divine’s plain white, dark 85%, and the 70% bars. Christmas lines on sale include the advent calendar, salted fudge with a dark chocolate coating, gold coins many more seasonal specialties.

Visit the Divine Chocolate Shop here: www.divinechocolate.com/shop

Farmer-owned chocolate company Divine Chocolate has been a sponsor of Chocolate Week since it was created and is once again co-sponsoring this nationwide celebration of chocolate which this year is being held from 10-16 October. It has teamed up with chefs, hotels, restaurants and tearooms to offer exclusive new recipes and Divine-themed chocolate events across the country.

For a full list of events visit www.divinechocolate.com/chocolateweek (new events added daily)

Below is just a small selection of Divine’s activity this year …

The Grand Imperial at The Grosvenor Hotel in London will be serving chocolate dim sum on its afternoon tea menu. Back by popular demand, The Orangery at Kensington Palace will be hosting Divine Chocolate Afternoon Tea.

Exclusive cocktails inspired by and using Divine will be on offer at the chic Sanderson Hotel in London’s West End, including the deliciously tempting Divinitini made with Divine Milk Chocolate, Grand Marnier, Crème de Cacao and vodka.  Divine cocktails will be served in the bar all week at K West Hotel in London, including Strawberry Delight made with Divine’s White & Strawberry Chocolate, Smirnoff vodka and crème de fraise. The newly re-opened Boyd’s Brasserie just off Trafalgar Square will also be serving cocktails made using Divine’s acclaimed dark chocolate.

A number of partners are busy creating special Chocolate Week puds using Divine. The award-winning Kingham Plough in the heart of The Cotswolds has developed a Divine Chocolate and Salted Caramel Millionaires Shortbread which comprises a frozen salted caramel parfait, a shortbread biscuit, dark chocolate tuilles and sauce. The hugely popular Healthy Life Bistro in Devizes, Wiltshire will be serving a Mayan Spiced Chocolate Cake, combining chocolate, orange zest, mace and clove as well as a Chocolate Brownie Cake. At the four star deluxe hotel The Lancaster London overlooking Hyde Park, a very unique offering will be available to diners. A special Chocolate Week dessert has been created using delicious Divine dark chocolate and honey made from the 500,000 bees which sit on top of the hotel itself! Divine Chocolate Fudge Cake with Mascarpone & Lancaster Honeycomb will feature on the Island Restaurant menu all week, priced at £4.50.

Divine tasting sessions will be taking place at cafes and stores across the country including London’s most prestigious department store Liberty in London, Kennards Deli in London’s Bloomsbury, Wholefoods Market Camden, Alder Carr Farm shop in Suffolk and The Healthy Life in Wiltshire.

Widemouth Manor Hotel in Bude, Cornwall is going all out for Chocolate Week, hosting Divine Fondue Nights, a Divine Truffle Making workshop, and Divine Afternoon Tea. Other events in Cornwall include Divine treats at The Cowslip Tearoom in Launceston and The Rectory Tearoom in Morwenstow and Divine desserts at The Wellington Hotel in Boscastle.

The Gore Hotel next to the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington has been described by the media as the most photographed and most romantic hotel in London. Divine and The Gore have teamed up to produce the UK’s first ever Divine Chocolate Board. A sensory experience where the diner chooses three different flavours of Divine chocolate to taste, to which is added a scoop of Divine ice-cream, Divine chocolate truffles and fresh berries, the chocolate board concept which makes a tempting alternative to a cheese board. The Divine Chocolate Board will be on offer in the Bistro as well as special Divine offerings in the starter, main and pudding sections of menu!

Divine is pleased to have joined forces with London based eco taxi firm Climate Cars, with chocolate available for customers across an entire fleet of cars.

Chocolate Unwrapped is the official Chocolate Week consumer show, held at the end of Chocolate Week in London. The fair is held on Saturday 15^th and Sunday 16^th October at Vinopolis in London Bridge and will see some of the biggest names in the chocolate industry all gather under one roof.

For details of these events, and many more across the country, visit www.divinechocolate.com/chocolateweek.

Divine’s new chocolate box duo contains solid chocolate discs made with dark chocolate and peppermint crisp, and the other containing dark chocolate discs with real raspberry pieces. As with all Divine products, the discs are free from artificial flavourings, colourings and preservatives. A Divine signature is imprinted on each disc – four of the pretty Adinkra symbols from Divine’s packaging decorate the discs giving a hint to Divine’s Ghanaian heritage.

Divine’s Advent Calendar is back with a detailed new colour illustration. An illustrated globe shows the journey from cocoa bean to bar and the celebration of Christmas around the world. Inside each of the 24 windows sits a solid milk chocolate heart (which is suitable for vegetarians) behind which the story of the Nativity is told. On the back of the calendar you can read about how Fairtrade is good for farming.  

The boxed chocolate discs and Advent Calendar will be available from Waitrose from the end of September. Also available at Booths, Liberty of London and Oxfam, RRP £4.50 (100g). Both are available for vegetarians.

Other festive offerings are milk chocolate Gold Coins and Christmas Puddings.  Divine Gold Coins (RRP £2.00, 75g net) available from Liberty’s and Oxfam.  The Christmas Puddings from Divine’s sister brand Dubble are available from Booths and Liberty’s (RRP £2.00, 80g nets).

Divine’s latest 100g bar combines rich dark chocolate with citrusy orange and warming, spicy ginger. It is available at Sainsbury’s supermarkets nationwide (and Sainsbury’s online) RRP £1.69.

The Divine Tropical Collection includes Dark Chocolate-Coated Brazil Nuts, Mangos and Apricots. They are each priced at RRP £4.50 and available from Oxfam and wholefoods stores (suitable for vegetarians). The entire Christmas range can be found online at the Divine Chocolate Shop.

Divine will be running a series of promotions, including a really exceptional prize for one lucky winner during the festival – one bar will contain a Golden Ticket giving the winner stage-side access to the Pyramid Stage on the final night.

Glastonbury’s head of sponsorship, Robert Richards, explains that Glastonbury is committed to environmental and ethical standards – which include being careful regarding the brands the festival is associated with wherever possible. “We have made sure that the Festival promotes good environmental and ethical practice as much as possible. The tea and coffee on sale is Fairtrade, and we have felt for some time that the chocolate should be too. Divine was our clear choice – not only is it 100% Fairtrade, but it’s also farmer-owned, and independent just like Glastonbury.”

Sophi Tranchell, Managing Director of Divine Chocolate adds, “Divine and Glastonbury are obvious soul-mates – as well as sharing ethical values, Divine is all about delicious fun, indulgence, sharing and being sociable – the ideal festival companion.”

On sale at Glastonbury will be one limited edition 45g milk chocolate bar with a special Glastonbury wrapper, plus five 100g bars – milk chocolate, milk chocolate with orange, dark chocolate with ginger and orange, 70% dark chocolate, and white chocolate with strawberry.  Inside one of the 100g bars will be a Golden Ticket giving the winner and a friend an   exclusive stage-side view for a performance on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday 26th June.

Divine Chocolate and Ingle & Rhode is inviting public nominations in a search to find the most Divine Woman in the UK, between the 8th of March and 8th of April 2011.

They have enlisted the help of ethical-campaigner Livia Firth to help select a winner. Divine says, “Everyday, women everywhere in the UK make real and lasting positive changes in their communities, yet they are so often taken for granted. Divine Women are those who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to make a difference in people’s lives and now it’s time to give them the recognition they deserve.”

The ultimate winner will be awarded a prize of a bespoke pendant worth over £1,000, made with Fairtrade and Fairmined 18 carat gold from Ingle & Rhode.

Livia Firth says her Divine Women would be “The novelist Clare Sambrook, who launched the very successful campaign against child detention last year, Esme Peach, for working with Clare and for work on creating and running the EQUALs campaign, and Maya Foa, the wonderful campaigner for Reprieve.”

The company is also pleased to announce a series of brand new recipes created by some of the famous culinary faces of the world. Top chefs such as Gregg Wallace from MasterChef and two Michelin starred chef Tom Aikens have created chocolate-based dishes using Divine’s 100g chocolate bars.