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'''Madécasse is a chocolate brand sold wholesale and retail primarily in US and Canadabut also in Europe. Their chocolate is made and packaged in Madagascar and can therefore be considered a produced from bean-to-bar in Madagascar using cocoa of single source origin cocoa chocolate brand.'''
[[File:Madecasse_0001Cinagra 122.jpg|600px|thumb|600px|none|Madécasse chocolate bar with 70% cocoaproduced at the [[Cinagra]] factory in [[Antananarivo]]]]
Almost all cocoa grown Two former Peace Corps workers, Tim McCollum and Brett Beach, co-founded Madécasse in 2008 while working in Madgascar come from within Madagascar with an area with aim to benefit a local farming industry through a 50-kilometre radius within the Sambirano region, along the Sambirano riverbed where annual floods enrich the nutrients cooperative of the soil45 farmers. Unlike many other Their chocolate was originally made and packaged by [[Chocolaterie Robert]] and is since 2009 produced and packaged by [[Cinagra]], using cocoa producing nationsfrom plantations in [[Ambanja]], Madagascan cocoa yields crop all year roundsuch as the [[Millot Plantation]].
Two former Peace Corps workers, Tim McCollum and Brett Beach, co-founded [[File:Madecasse bars 2014.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Madécasse bars in 2008 while working in Madagascar with an aim to benefit a local farming industry through a cooperative of 45 farmers. chocolate store]]
Their chocolate was originally made and packaged by the [[Chocolaterie Robert]] in [[Antananarivo]] and is since 2009 produced by [[Cinagra]], Madagascars second chocolate maker, also in Antananarivo. In 2011, Madécasse was awarded one of ''[http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2011/profile/madecasse.php|50 Most Innovative Companies]'' by ''[http://www.fastcompany.com|Fast Company] '' - a media company which features unique business formulas concepts and the individuals behind them in their printed and online publications.
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== Additional information ==
* [[COCOMA]] - Cocoa Company of Madagascar
* http://www.theconche.com/2009/01/madecasse-67-75/
* http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/tasteful-company-madecasse/
* http://www.sugoodsweets.com/blog/category/chocolate/nutella/
* http://www.smsmallbiz.com/bestpractices/Launching_a_Business_With_a_Cause.html

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