Twin Trading

Twin Trading was an alternative trading company in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1985 and was based in London.{{cite news|first1=Robin|last1=Murray|accessdate=2019-09-06|title=Michael Barratt Brown obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/26/michael-barratt-brown|newspaper=The Guardian|date=26 May 2015|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}

Twin Trading was wholly owned by Twin, a registered charity and membership organisation. It was co-founded by economist Michael Barratt Brown, who was also at one time its chairman. He stood down from the Board in August 2007.Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01885196/officers Twin Trading Ltd.], accessed 23 August 2021

Twin was founded as the Third World Information Network with the support of the Greater London Council. In 1988 it began to import coffee, sold through Oxfam and Traidcraft,{{cite news|first1=Sarah|last1=Butler|accessdate=2019-09-06|title=Fairtrade coffee producers face challenge of climate change|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jan/24/fairtrade-coffee-climate-change|newspaper=The Guardian|date=24 January 2011|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}} leading to the 1988 founding of Cafédirect by Twin with Oxfam, Traidcraft and Equal Exchange Trading. In 1993, Twin helped chocolate farmers in Ghana to found the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative, and in 1998 Divine Chocolate was formed, largely owned by Kuapa Kokoo, to market Fairtrade chocolate. Twin also launched OKÉ and Liberation Nuts.

In November 2019 it was bought by Sustainable Harvest,{{cite web |url=https://www.sustainableharvest.com/ |title=Home |website=sustainableharvest.com}} a United States–based green coffee importer.{{cite web |url=http://gcrmag.com/news/article/sustainable-harvest-acquires-twin-trading |title=Sustainable Harvest acquires Twin Trading {{!}} Global Coffee Report |website=gcrmag.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112060403/http://gcrmag.com/news/article/sustainable-harvest-acquires-twin-trading |archive-date=2019-11-12}}